These were hardened criminals.
The millionaire's mind was hardened against pity.
I'm quite hardened to the cold weather here now.
They were the deeds of a hardened criminal.
The metal in the mould hardened into shape.
They had been hardened to the horrors of war.
To reheat hardened steel or hardened cast iron to some temperature below the eutectoid temperature for the purpose of decreasing hardness and increasing toughness.
Case hardened: a case hardened fastener is a fastener of ferrous material having a surface which has been made harder than the core.
But after sitting through the boiling water, it's inside became hardened.
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She shakes her head wearily, like a battle-hardened wedding veteran.
I saw her: blond hair pulled back in a bandanna, thick-soled shoes, work-hardened hands.
The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
Several hundred people died, even though the flow had hardened before it reached the main part of the city.
At least, until the snow hardened into ice, the whiteness turned to sludge and everyone started to moan again.
For ammunition to break through, artillery shells need to be hardened by adding certain minerals to the steel.
There are more dim bulbs in the universe than even the most hardened pessimist might have imagined.
The greatest ruffian, the most hardened violator of the laws of society, is not altogether without it.
At about this time in what is now Yugoslavia, hardened copper tools were being developed, and the Stone Age came to an end.
The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly.
Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his country.
When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: he and his officials hardened their hearts.
These days the 81-year-old is responsible for introducing the attitude-adjusting art to thousands of hardened criminals around the world.
Men's Sheds operate under the motto "Shoulder to Shoulder" and Maitland President John Hill says the practical element is critical in getting the sometimes gruff and hardened locals to open up.
Whether the report presages a victory so resounding that it ends the long war, or just another inconclusive skirmish, now depends on the 100 battle-hardened warriors of the Senate.
This view began with Sir Ian and has been hardened by the Green affair and an extraordinary outburst by Bob Quick, a senior officer, who ranted about the “wholly corrupt” Tory machinery.
Its communications system is hardened to withstand the massive electromagnetic pulse of a nuclear burst,so that the communication network will function following an enemy attack and enable the NCA to direct a retaliatory strike.
"Linoleum is flexible, warm, and unaffected by ordinary floor temperatures, and it does not readily Burn. It is specially hardened to resist indentation and is not susceptible to damage from fats, oils, greases, or organic solvents. "
