How to Use hardy in a Sentence

hardy

adjective

• Hardy fans stuck with the team through good times and bad.
• Most of the soldiers were hardy young men.
• Only the hardiest pilgrims made the journey.
• Now is a great time to plant hardy fruit trees, bushes or vines in your landscape.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2021
• Cold-hardy flowers include snowdrops, hellebores and alpine rock cress.
  — Jackalyn Beck, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• There is a debate about which is the most cold hardy subtropical blooming plant.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2021
• Only hardy to around 30°, so would need to be moved indoors in the winter in Arkansas.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 2021
• This isn’t to say that the film lacks in hardy character or gorgeous idyllic cinematography.
  — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2024
• While temperatures in some areas are reaching more than most would consider durable, that’s doesn’t mean a few hardy selects cant keep you warm.
  — Nandi Howard and Danielle Wright, Essence, 29 Jan. 2021
• Come winter, wide open spaces in Iowa are more numbing than even a hardy Minnesotan wants to experience.
  — Jon Bream, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
• Despite having eaten all their favorite foods, the simple, hardy spiked invertebrates somehow manage to persist.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2021
• The high point is the Polar Plunge, in which hardy souls will jump into aboveground swimming pools to raise money for the Special Olympics.
  — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2021
• For truly hardy bikepackers, the burly 70-mile loop through the Cathedral Valley delivers you into some of the most remote corners of the park.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 28 Oct. 2024
• Apart from hardy souls like Mr. Anderson, truckers are increasingly shunning ports like Holyhead.
  — New York Times, 27 Jan. 2021
• Depending on their age and specific microclimate, established dwarf palmettos and windmill palms are extremely cold hardy.
  — Daniel Cunningham, Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2021
• The iron that was likely stirred up deep in the ocean into shallow waters provided a food source that allowed hardy bacteria life to rebound quickly, according to Drabon's findings.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
• Other relatively cold hardy palms (Mediterranean fan, Pindo) will likely see severe damage if they were left unprotected.
  — Daniel Cunningham, Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2021
• That kind of cold even prompted some sympathy from other cold-hardy locales: Alabama forecasters are watching that cold airmass and assessing if some of it could head southward later this week.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 7 Feb. 2021
• The darker the color, the more cold-hardy the stem tends to be.
  — Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2022
• But that’s hardy enough to warrant a drop from the No. 1 spot.
  — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2023
• Most of the seedlings were sea oats, a hardy species that can be found all the way up the coast to New Jersey.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
• This grapefruit grows to 8-12 feet tall and is very hardy.
  — oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2021
• Avoid plants that are short lived or not cold hardy for our area.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2021
• There are over 800 species of this this hardy herbaceous plant.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2023
• It is supposed to be hardy from zone 6-9, so time will tell.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2023
• Settlers on this non-Edenic patch of earth must be tough and hardy.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• Leeks, those long, plump, green cousins to onions and shallots, are a cold-hardy crop.
  — Beth Dooley Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
• Many of them are cold-hardy, but read the plant tag or description to be sure.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 23 Feb. 2023
• This plant is not reliably hardy in the northern tier of the state.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 3 Jan. 2022
• So, the middle of a slope is the sweet spot for borderline hardy plants.
  — oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024