Use "hard put" in a sentence

1. Jorma had worked hard putting this together in only a half a year, what she used to think of as a month

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2. Confederation would be hard put to duplicate that feat

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3. Slikit would have been hard put to tell you his exact age, he'd forgotten that long ago, but in his mind's eye he was still the lithesome young badger who'd bounded along forest tracks without a care in the world

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4. She had been hard put to keep up the pace toward the end of reconstruction, but she had kept on even as her slender body sagged with exhaustion

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5. Starret was hard put to keep up with Penn

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6. Without a caption, we’d be hard put to tell the view of

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7. Again, one would be hard put to tell which is which because they

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8. "No, no, I swear it!" She was hard put to avoid the hand which was again fumbling at her veil

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9. ” Richard put his hands on Donna’s shoulders and guided her

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10. Richard put his Bluetooth ear bud in

11. Richard put his head in his hands and groaned

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12. Even medical personnel can be hard put

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13. it’s horrible, Tommy!” And she was hard put to

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14. At my age, I would be hard put to keep up with a normal woman ten years younger than I am but Lea"s needs are way beyond the normal

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15. It was well you escaped her net; Joseph was hard put to it by her, and he escaped her as you did; but it had like to have cost him his life

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16. Our friend, the doctor, was hard put to it when he wrote this

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17. Skilled men these, without whom the Confederacy would have been hard put Europeans who had run the blockade to build machines and turn out Confederate

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18. In the weeks that followed her first party, Scarlett was hard put to keep up her

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19. We shall be hard put to it

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20. very hard put to it, even if it were not for this dreadful chance

21. I was hard put to it

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