Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use tougher in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tougher? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The survey is being used to spearhead a national campaign for tougher legislation to prevent weapons falling into the wrong hands.
The tougher regime should also stop a rather dubious practice in the mortgage industry.
Then to find out just how rugged it really was I tried slicing up a pot roast that was tougher than saddle leather and twice as stiff.
Furious residents called for tougher police measures in a desperate bid to combat hooliganism.
Growth had been expected to come down during the year, because of tougher year-on-year comparisons.
Union chiefs are now asking the Government to lay down tougher security guidelines for all bus operators.
We must be tough on this crime, and even tougher on the causers of such crime.
To win relicensing, owners had to accept tougher web filtering technologies, something industry sources believe was long planned.
Intimate scenes can be tougher to enact without the protection of the fourth wall.
The caterpillars that spin commercial silk can make much tougher or more elastic threads, depending on how fast they're forced to spin.
Getting to the top that quickly through internal growth will be tougher than dancing the Texas two-step with your boots on backward.
He said tougher standards were needed to crack down on thugs and drunken yobs.
But it also includes a push for tougher enforcement of trade pacts, including an assault on dumping and export subsidies.
And in mass lay-offs, it will be tougher to convince the boss to single you out for better treatment.
After a rug is finished it is washed in the bath and mothproofed, so that it shrinks and is made tougher.
Smith has good upper-body strength and held his own against some of the tougher tackles in the division.
If you are poor with the ball it generally makes it tougher when you haven't got it.
We are overwhelmed by information, so conveying a message that sticks is tougher than ever.
The rules will be tougher than under Australian law, but then, most of the boat people ARE refugees.
Campaigning then was a bit tougher than it is now, so tough in fact that George Albert employed a bodyguard.
Show More Sentences
Examples from Classical Literature
Vanadium as an alloy increases the elastic limit, making the steel stronger, tougher and harder.
It might have been tougher for him 200 years ago, when they hadn't learned to decondition children early from parental fixations.
Another Boehme, say you, with a tougher book and subtler abstract meanings of what roses say?
The abalones are as large as steaks, and a great deal tougher.
Finding cleats made in multiple widths is tougher than finding a kicker who can consistently boot 60-yard field goals.
But familiar species such as the red admiral and painted lady are tougher than they look.
Vladeck's parting shots was that OBRA surveys, if anything, were going to get tougher.
They will also face tougher penalties if their children regularly play truant, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.
Now, reports trade magazine Caterer and Hotelkeeper, calls are being made for managers to impose tougher security checks on staff.
Horses generally do not lose their Breeders' Cup preps and then improve their results in the tougher Breeders' Cup races.
The stems or trunks of this vine are tougher and more flexible than willow, and are from fifty to one hundred fathoms in length.
The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than anyone can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.
The major portion he fed to Elijah, reserving for himself the tougher parts and the bones.
There is no tougher man or more resolute fighter in the Army.
It is tougher than our glass, and chips to a fine razor edge.
They find it tougher, it is said, when the onus is on them to dictate the play against lesser opposition.
The prejudices which they shared in common with the latter were fortified in themselves by an iron frame-work of reasoning, that made it a far tougher labour to expel them.
He is a complex man, refined, raffish even, but eruptively emotional, as his touchline antics here indicated, and tougher than his charm suggests.
In the study, each resident faced the same battery of tests near the end of a relatively easy month and again after a tougher month that had culminated in an all-night shift.
It found that more than three quarters agree that encouraging tougher discipline for misbehaving students would help all children to achieve their goals.
Show More Sentences
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
7-letter Words Starting With
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024