Sentences with harden
hard·en
H h - Mould the mixture into shape while hot, before it hardens. [VERB]
- Their action can only serve to harden the attitude of landowners. [VERB noun]
- These oils harden when exposed to air and seal the wood.
- Retail values should continue to harden as rents increase.
- Property prices are just beginning to harden again. [VERB]
- Her years of drunken bickering hardened my heart. [VERB noun]
- ‘This is evident in a number of markets where rents are falling, but yields are not only holding steady, but in most instances hardening,’ he said.
- The market is hardening all the time and I feel it will remain active over the coming months,’ said Stanley.
- His smile died and the look in his face hardened. [VERB]
- They hardened defences
- The MIT team made the tags by randomly mixing microscopic glass spheres into transparent epoxy and then hardening the glue into wafers about the size of Chiclets.
- The lightness of the first film had hardened into a frantic, unpleasant quality - it's easily the worst of the series.
- hardened in his resolve
- To harden one's heart
- He looks as if he wants to speak, but then his eyes harden as she remains impassive.
- The Tories seem to believe that they can harden up their core support through scapegoating.
- To harden steel.
- To harden one's heart.
- An instant later her eyes seemed to harden and become as hard and cold as the rock whose color they took.
- The outside would immediately harden, but the inside would remain soft.
- The rigors of poverty hardened his personality.
- His personality hardened over the years.
- Tung oil will harden, not stay soft and oily as the typical oil finish you mention.
- As far as the office itself is concerned, companies have to break away from their traditional reliance on the perimeter firewall and look to harden up defences from within.
- His resistance hardened.
- The troops hardened under constant fire.
- If the weather warms up the pitch will harden and produce variable bounce,’ says Charles Downes.
- Don't bother trying to resist Jim Garrahy's Fudge Kitchen, where the fudge is made in front of you, spread out on a huge marble slab and left to harden before being passed around for sampling.
- When the speculators withdrew from the market, the prices hardened.
- When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. — KJV, Exodus 4:21
- ‘By the time the standards harden, we have something that has been used by a lot of people,’ said Bob Sutor, IBM's director of e-Business strategy.
- Thermoplastics, which soften when heated and harden when cooled, run the gamut from commodity to engineering plastics.
- No doubt plenty of people will harden in their support for the Democrats in the next election.
- Record low yields are being set this year, and yields will harden further for the foreseeable future.
- He did this to harden up electoral support and build a core of activists committed not just to racism, but to fascism.
- I have seen soft teeth harden after cod liver oil and lots of butter are added to the diet.
- Jeff Leighton, FBU Executive Council member for the Yorkshire region, said there was no doubt attitudes had continued to harden since the strike began.
- Instead of being mixed with liquid, they are mixed with a rubbery material that stays rubbery and doesn't harden like glue.