How to Use hard to take in a Sentence
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That’s why his death – and the cause of it – is so hard to take.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 2 Dec. 2022
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My therapist says to stay in touch with her and give her time, but her rudeness is hard to take.
—Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2023
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The series delivers a sense of community with the way Jimmy and his unit work hard to take care of the town.
—Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2023
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Lorna starts off a little hard to take, but her reaction to the dead woman on the floor is a nightmare — for the viewer.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
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Roman Polanski’s latest movie, The Palace, is hard to take.
—Armond White, National Review, 14 Feb. 2024
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Prober still isn’t happy with Apple and says that Apple’s actions have hit his business in a way that’s hard to take.
—Adam Speight, Wired, 20 Nov. 2021
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Nathan Lane’s Ward McAllister remains, alas, a little hard to take.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
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Others find Segel’s emotionalism hard to take, as well as the hang-out vibe (don’t these people work?), among other things.
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023
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JaNae Bates, one of the young, Black activists leading the movement to pass the proposal, said her group worked hard to take all voices into account.
—The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2021
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These are familiar struggles for many in these pandemic-tinged times, which may make these sections hard to take.
—Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2022
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Of course there were moments that were hard to take — when suspects mentioned which brands of lubrication were best or whether or not a parent might hold a child down.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
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But Piton works hard to take advantage of every opportunity to be seen for his talent, Sokol said.
—Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
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This deliberately shoddy level of finish is one source of the tension in Reaves’ sculptures, most of which have a junkiness that’s hard to take.
—Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2023
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Unfortunately, during times of high demand these tests can be hard to take or results are delayed.
—Lauren Joseph, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2021
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Because every single member of cast & crew worked very hard to take care of each other during a time that’s stressful, in a situation that’s tough to control.
—Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 8 Feb. 2023
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At the same time, these individuals were hard to take seriously.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
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Unlike Xi and his colleagues born in the Mao era, young people in China today have grown up with an abundance of choices -- freedoms that are hard to take away once people have grown accustomed to them.
—Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN, 8 Sep. 2021
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These changes were especially hard to take because, for a time, immunocompromised people caught a glimpse of something better.
—Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2022
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Political divisions and distrust have also been hard to take.
—Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2022
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Parfit was so strange an individual, and lived such a strange life, that his musings on the real-life implications of his work might be hard to take seriously — or so my professor thought.
—Oliver Traldi, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
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Parfit was so strange an individual, and lived such a strange life, that his musings on the real-life implications of his work might be hard to take seriously — or so my professor thought.
—Oliver Traldi, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
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Comments on other platforms, especially those comparing her to her ex Justin Bieber's partners, became hard to take in, leading her to take Instagram off her phone years ago.
—Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 23 Feb. 2023
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Too often feedback is solicited through physical suggestion boxes that are hard to take action on.
—Claire Schmidt, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
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The Democratic proposal is in one sense hard to take seriously because price controls are so obviously dumb.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 May 2022
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The relentless heat is especially hard to take because art students routinely spend several hours in studio classes.
—Debbie Truongstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
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But again, the argument that Trump is purely acting altruistically to clear up a constitutional point of dispute is hard to take seriously.
—Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Nov. 2021
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Unfortunately, my supervisor recently retired and their replacement is hard to take.
—Tribune Content Agency, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2022
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