How to Use hard-hit in a Sentence

hard-hit

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• The port city of Derna was especially hard-hit; the collapse of two dams wiped out a quarter of the area.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• But then my neighborhood was hard-hit with explosions and fighting so the school closed down.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• Burbank has been hard-hit by the ongoing writers’ strike, now in its 11th week, the politician told The Hollywood Reporter on Friday.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2023
• Children were particularly hard-hit, with the poverty rate for kids doubling compared with 2021.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Government price setting also leads to less innovation, and in the case of the IRA, cancer research will be especially hard-hit.
  — Stephen J. Ubl, STAT, 6 July 2023
• The small community of 400 was particularly hard-hit, with scores dead, missing or taken as captives to Gaza.
  — Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Even as government rescue workers make their way into harder-to-access mountain villages that were hard-hit, there is a desperate need for help across the region.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2023
• The Hale, however, sits in an area particularly hard-hit by changes to the economy following the pandemic and a massive shift to remote working.
  — Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2024
• High school scores Amid widespread learning loss for students following school closures, math scores proved to be particularly hard-hit.
  — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 30 June 2023
• Wednesday’s storms left extensive damage to trees and power lines, flipped boats and campers and damaged some buildings — with the Brainerd Lakes region particularly hard-hit.
  — Andrew Krueger | Mpr News, Twin Cities, 14 June 2024
• The extraordinary event saw the workers-cum-asylum seekers and an IDF artillery unit stationed on the outskirts of this southern kibbutz, which was hard-hit in the Hamas invasion, break bread together.
  — Etgar Lefkovits, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• Officials were beginning to assess the extent of the destruction, especially on smaller and hard-hit islands.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
• One group particularly hard-hit by the lack of housing options is women age 50 and older who are widowed or divorced and living alone, Thurmond-Quinlan said in an interview after the meeting.
  — Doug Thompson, arkansasonline.com, 10 Apr. 2024
• Statewide, juveniles have been particularly hard-hit by a pandemic-era increase in shootings.
  — Freep.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• The military is currently facing a recruiting crisis unseen since the switch to an all-volunteer model nearly four decades ago, with the Army being particularly hard-hit by the problem.
  — Michael Lee, Fox News, 14 Apr. 2023
• Downtown hotels were particularly hard-hit by the pandemic, and some have changed owners or operators.
  — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
• Beef prices especially have been on the rise since the coronavirus pandemic began, in part due to supply chain issues, but also because meatpacking plants, where employees work in close quarters, were hard-hit by outbreaks.
  — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 10 May 2023
• Houston’s humidity, about 80 percent at its worst this week, makes the city more difficult to effectively air-condition, compared with drier Southwest cities also hard-hit by the latest heat wave, such as Las Vegas and Phoenix.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• Every ward experienced at least one homicide, according to police data, though Wards 7 and 8, both east of the Anacostia River, were particularly hard-hit.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• Especially hard-hit, analysts warn, is the high-tech industry, a roaring engine of Israel’s modern economy.
  — Melanie Lidman and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
• An oppressive heatwave has affected much of the South in recent weeks, bringing triple-digit temperatures to millions of people, with Texas particularly hard-hit.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 5 July 2023
• The arts were particularly hard-hit, with donations, spending on programs, salaries and other forms of employee compensation all falling by roughly 50% as museums, theaters and concert venues remained shut and in-person shows were canceled.
  — Jennifer Mayo, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2023
• Maryland’s ‘lazy’ economy must change Transportation construction has been especially hard-hit by inflation across the country, a factor that Maryland officials have said is partly responsible for the budget hole.
  — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
• The new program, created by the Living Classrooms Foundation, brings crisis response and resources into two Baltimore neighborhoods to help stabilize communities hard-hit by gun violence.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
• Commercial real estate borrowers rely heavily on midsize regional banks, which have been particularly hard-hit by the turbulence.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024