How to Use calloused in a Sentence

calloused

adjective

• Beyond calloused hands and sore backs, the job comes with a pay cut.
  — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2021
• His hands were strong and calloused and so much bigger than mine.
  — Gemma Hartley, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2020
• His hands were deeply calloused and rough, like a barefoot runner’s feet.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• Hunt plucked the key from his palm, which was noticeably soft, not the calloused palm of a fisherman.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
• Granddaddy holds the edges of the newspaper tight in his thick, calloused hands.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2022
• The assailant was described as a male, 25 to 40 yrs old, wearing dark pants and a black hoodie, with rough and calloused hands.
  — Christopher Roth, azcentral, 24 Apr. 2020
• The nonstop work had left his shoulder buckled and hands calloused.
  — Serenitie Wang, CNN, 17 June 2022
• Magic booties that transform rough and calloused feet into, well, feet that are as soft and smooth as a baby's?
  — Sarah Han, Allure, 24 Sep. 2021
• His calloused hand pulled his baseball cap low against the Louisiana sun, then followed the cane down to where the stalk emerged from dirt.
  — Ted Jackson, NOLA.com, 20 Aug. 2017
• This is cooking for millennials, who lack the calloused fingers or grit of an old-time cook.
  — Bee Wilson, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• My dirty hands became more heavily calloused and my work boots quickly wore out.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2022
• Self, a driller by profession, was known as an earth mover, a fabricator, a welder, a framer with calloused hands but a tender touch, the Go Fund Me post said.
  — Nathan J. Fish, azcentral, 26 May 2018
• Standing outside a mine’s entrance, Mr. Hadi, the former soldier, wiped his hand on his shirt and looked at his calloused palm.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• A parade of Carhartt coveralls and neon safety vests formed in the aisles for communion, the white wafers glinting between calloused hands.
  — Matt A.v. Chaban, New York Times, 2 May 2016
• Jacoby slowly stripped off the dressing, revealing the wound, which was rimmed with thick, yellow calloused skin.
  — AZCentral.com, 10 June 2021
• Despite its massive fan base, Baby Foot isn't the only exfoliator that can bring rough, calloused feet back to life.
  — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 10 Sep. 2018
• However, the brand of calloused machismo Phil projects doesn't land as wholly authentic.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 19 Sep. 2021
• After a couple of months of intense neighborhood power-walking and jogging, most athletic shoes leave the balls of my feet worn and calloused.
  — Dara Kapoor, Health.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• There are plenty of examples of experience changing the body, from calloused feet to bulging biceps.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
• Yet over nine years of continuous war in Syria, the world has largely become calloused to violence there – no matter how grisly.
  — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 21 Feb. 2020
• The stance could be misconstrued as either overly optimistic or calloused.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2020
• Another farmworker, a broad-shouldered man with calloused hands, echoes the sentiment.
  — Amy Maxmen, Scientific American, 13 May 2021
• Considering all Dygert has endured, no athlete is more calloused.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Sep. 2020
• Lingering are beaten-up F-150 trucks with giant American flags as their only point of pride, and desperate shirtless men use their dirty, calloused hands to fight to survive and to fight each other.
  — The Root, 13 June 2017
• The quaggas have forced fishermen who pride themselves on calloused hands to wear yellow dishwashing gloves to protect them from shells that shatter like shards from a fluorescent light tube.
  — Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2011
• Losing can harden even the most loyal of followers, who have grown calloused while waiting for another chance at a Super Bowl appearance.
  — Dennis Waszak Jr., courant.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• And Britton Hollingsworth gives peacemaker Jimmy a charming sweetness under his calloused hands.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Nov. 2020
• With temperatures spiking to 110 degrees once more, Jeetram Yadav sat in the shade on his farm outside New Delhi and cupped a handful of this season’s disappointing wheat between his calloused palms.
  — Sarah Kaplan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022
• This is what the actor has to play with, a John Wayne type overcompensating for oceans of insecurities churning inside his gut, always balling his calloused hands into defensive fists.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2021
• And his outward lack of any emotion about his messy public breach with the president and the Mercer family struck some not as the calloused indifference of a political operative but as nihilistic.
  — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2018

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