How to Use hard core in a Sentence

hard core

noun

• He knows that he can count on the support of a hard core of party loyalists.
• What used to be the clinic’s waiting room now has a small stage where punk and hardcore bands come to play.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
• None of this matters to Trump, who must appease the bigots who form the hard core of his support.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 31 Aug. 2017
• Since then, even as so much else has happened, that hard core hasn’t shifted.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• When Mushy’s mind is set on something, Mushy goes after it hard core.
  — Michael Schneider, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2020
• That peaceful approach could change if the hard core feels cornered.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
• Tuesday is for keynotes and consumer hardware, and the next three day are for hard core geeks.
  — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• Not even the hardest core NRA types are happy about felons packing heat.
  — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 11 July 2018
• According to Elon Musk, how long in 24 hours should someone rest from hard core work?
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
• Many cameras can be ruggedized with the addition of a case, but the GoPro is hard core on its own.
  — Gabrielle Hondorp, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2020
• But only hard core, old school gamers are going to take notice.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• This does not suggest there is a hard core of consumers who will keep companies in line.
  — The Economist, 27 July 2019
• The band formed in 2009, and have been evolving their brand of caustic but deeply fun hardcore through a series of lineup changes.
  — Zhenzhen Yu, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2023
• Pick raspberries when the fruit is firm but soft, deeply colored, and easily slides off the hard core.
  — Melinda Myers, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• Or at least that's how the guy at the carwash sees them: both too hard core for his suburban operation.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 4 June 2020
• All of the adaptations hope to capitalize on the games’ devoted base of hard core fans.
  — Gianmaria Tammaro, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2023
• The 'curva' often alludes to the part of the stadium where a club's hard core spectators or 'ultras' sit.
  — Ravi Ubha, Gianluca Mezzofiore and George Ramsay, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
• The suffix -core comes from hard core, which at first (1841) referred to broken bricks or stones that formed the hard substratum of roads and foundations.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2022
• Twenty years after School of Rock, Jack Black is still living hardcore.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2023
• The former chef, along with a handful of other hard core royal fans, has been sleeping in a red tent outside of the Lindo Wing since April 9.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2018
• This comes as a bit of a bummer for the many astronomers and astrophysicists who — not shockingly — are hard core Trekkers.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• That's where the convenient features end because this bike is pretty hard core.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2019
• With her powerful legs and rock-hard core, Magone can kick and walk on logs as narrow as 11 inches — sometimes for more than an hour.
  — Yadira Sanchez Olson, Lake County News-Sun, 27 June 2018
• In KGB’s heyday, the District was home to underground punk, hard core, hip-hop and go-go music scenes, all with their own taggers.
  — Anthony J. Rivera, Washington Post, 28 June 2018
• While the Morizo Edition is street legal, it’s really tuned to be even more hard core on the track than the already speedy Circuit edition.
  — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• Most of the talk was about the weather, football, home towns, and travel destinations, rather than hard core politics.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 16 Feb. 2020
• Experts on extremism say that the hard core of the far right is apt to become more extreme, and that there’s a high risk of political violence in the months to come.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
• What to Consider: This is a little hardcore and a little pricey for everyday beach trips.
  — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2023
• Primus and Mastodon are both bands that come from the world of heavy metal but resist categorization: The former blends it with prog rock and funk; the latter skews toward thrash and hard core.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2018
• Strong believers in political violence, that 5%, are the hardest of the hard core.
  — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024