How to Use hard-pressed in a Sentence

hard-pressed

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• The Beavers will be hard-pressed to reach that level of success.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
• In the Lions’ den at Ford Field, Williams will be hard-pressed to find running room.
  — Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2024
• The Bulls take on the Bucks tonight in Milwaukee, but Chicago fans will be hard-pressed to watch it.
  — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
• Paramount may find itself hard-pressed to go without Nielsen for long.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
• Simply put, the Hurricanes will be hard-pressed to avoid an upset.
  — Keven Lerner, Sun Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2024
• Miners have already invested in their equipment and would be hard-pressed to throw it all away, for one.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 July 2023
• Indeed, Justice Thomas would have been hard-pressed to get a loan from a traditional lender.
  — Julie Tate, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• The Lionesses will be hard-pressed to beat the French, who finally found their form in a 6-1 dissection of China.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
• Absent outside help, first-time buyers are often hard-pressed to put 20% down.
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 5 May 2024
• But young renters would be hard-pressed to find a market that isn’t rapidly outpacing their paycheck.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
• But the Tiffany network will be hard-pressed to be the driver of significant growth for the entire company.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
• Whoever gets the job will be hard-pressed to turn around an economy that’s collapsed in recent years.
  — Dana Khraiche, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2023
• Even if everything breaks perfectly for Schilling, a former Grand Canyon assistant, the Waves will be hard-pressed to crack the top five.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 27 June 2024
• Many borrowers could be hard-pressed to get new funding for those properties.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 8 June 2023
• But most of the candidates, as reported by Politico, would be hard-pressed to make it past Harris if Biden steps down or is replaced.
  — Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 July 2024
• Had the Pac-12 remained intact, Cal and Stanford would be hard-pressed to compete in the emerging environment.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
• Johnson will be hard-pressed to stem the infighting if Republicans retain control of the House next year.
  — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Oct. 2024
• Someone from Mexico City or Madrid sitting at the next table could be hard-pressed to follow their rare dialect.
  — Simon Romero Desiree Rios, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• But with stock in AMC having come back down to earth in value, the exhibition giant has been hard-pressed to keep raising fresh cash to run its business.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
• But with stock in AMC having come back down to earth in value, the exhibition giant had been hard-pressed to keep raising fresh cash to run its business.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2023
• First, the company will be hard-pressed to match Amazon's convenience of overnight or same-day delivery with its Prime service.
  — Drew Bernstein, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Other nocturnal creatures can also hear very well, and an owl whose feathers were rustling in flight would be hard-pressed to get close to its vigilant prey.
  — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
• At a time when the average American would be hard-pressed to name a single Rock Hudson film, is this what audiences really need to know about the star?
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 June 2023
• Foster will be hard-pressed not to improve on Kelly’s recent recruiting record.
  — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2024
• Indeed, our team was hard-pressed to find many differences in audio quality between the Turtlebox 2 and the other top scorers in this year’s test.
  — Will Palmer, Outside Online, 28 June 2024
• All signs are pointing up as loving Venus enters your 10th House of Honor, giving you an extra special shine that others will be hard-pressed to miss.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2024
• The idea also acknowledges that each county’s sheriff’s office is hard-pressed to report jail releases to the DMV because of the sheer volume.
  — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
• Plus, any animal lover will be hard-pressed not to shed a tear or two upon seeing an imperiled pup come to be lovingly embraced.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
• And while there are plenty of grays that can fit that temperature bill, there’s also a sense of self-expression that millennial gray would be hard-pressed to achieve.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Aug. 2024
• As for aesthetics, even a diehard enthusiast of the Raging Bull would be hard-pressed to spot the stylistic difference between the latest S and the original Urus.
  — Jeremy Taylor, Robb Report, 11 June 2023

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025