Hard-put Definition

Hard-put Sentence Examples

• In either case, I scarcely need say, she would be hard put to raise any principled objection to Stalin or Hitler.

• An honest wife will be hard put to it, to live many years without her husband.

• When hard put to it for food, coyotes will, it is reported, eat hips, juniper-berries and other wild fruits.

• The fact was that Saint-Mars was hard put to it in the prison for anybody who could be trusted, and that he had convinced himself by this time that Dauger (who had proved a quiet harmless fellow) would give no trouble.