How to Use hardness in a Sentence

hardness

noun

• The wood's hardness makes it suitable for carving.
• The speed and the shape of the extruder help determine the hardness of the ice.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
• All the hardness that would sometimes creep across his face was gone in his sleep.
  — Shaheen Pasha, Longreads, 1 May 2020
• That and the faux ivory ball didn’t have the hardness of the real thing, so billiard players spurned it.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022
• The tool is made from plated steel that is high in hardness and good with toughness.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 9 June 2021
• The second factor to consider is the hardness of the chew.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2022
• Fill the dispenser based on your load and water hardness.
  — Carolyn Forté, Good Housekeeping, 13 July 2022
• The sight of her in bed turned his lungs cold, but the hardness usually in her eyes had vanished.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 May 2017
• Torlef Borsting doesn’t downplay the Count’s hardness of heart.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2019
• Ginn’s hands rank just below topaz on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, but the dude can flat-out fly.
  — Pat Fitzmaurice, SI.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• The hardness of water is measured in grains, with one grain equal to one seven-thousandth of a pound.
  — Tim Carter, Orange County Register, 3 Jan. 2017
• Dinges then exposed the soft aluminum to a series of heat and acid treatments that achieved a hardness three times that of steel.
  — Scott Suchman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2021
• There are just too many variables here to consider in terms of wood hardness, access to the cut, and the person’s strength.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
• The case, meanwhile, is milled from a single piece of 904L stainless steel—a painstaking process due to its hardness.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 28 May 2022
• Like the marble tabletop, they are all rounded and have a cold hardness that even suggests that they are made of stone.
  — John Wilmerding, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• The hardness comes from a buildup of visceral fat—the kind of fat that builds up on your internal organs.
  — Sarah Fielding, Men's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
• There is a measure of hardness called Janka to rank hardwood.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2022
• The embryonic stem cells of frogs migrate to create the hardness of frog faces.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• The trail into the cave, which in the past was snowshoe or skis only, is now packed into concrete-like hardness.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2022
• Or maybe some of them are hard, but their hardness isn’t of a kind that lends itself to secure encryption.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2022
• The food processor is not suitable for grinding a blend of spices of varying hardness and size.
  — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2021
• There is Williams, who’s the spark and energy of the team, and guard Jasmine Thomas, the veteran who comes poised, but with a gritty hardness to her.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• The chair is cooled in a water bath for 10 minutes, squared up to eliminate wobble, and baked overnight to take the aluminum up to T6—three times the hardness of steel.
  — Scott Suchman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2021
• Her stance was that of a woman who looked out for herself, as the Italian women saw it, her sternness a kind of hardness, like that of a man.
  — Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2019
• Swap the stock bushings—the rubbery ring in the center of each truck—for a pair of medium-hardness Bones bushings (and leave the top washer off) for even smoother turns.
  — Mike Senese, Wired, 15 Aug. 2022
• In a high-traffic kitchen, the hardness and density of hickory stand up well.
  — Jan Soults Walker, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Dec. 2021
• And all these problems have their own dimension of hardness.
  — Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
• McKay also said he was surprised at the hardness of the lunar surface.
  — Houston Chronicle, 21 July 2019
• Courage to all my butterflies in defending softness, tenderness, magic, and sweetness in a world full of hardness.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 13 Sep. 2024
• Minerals like calcium and magnesium can cling to the surface over time, especially in areas with high water hardness.
  — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024