Having taken a great deal of effort to win or acquire.
their hard-won freedom from slavery
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm surprised that they are jeopardizing their hard-won reputation for quality DVD releases with this latest effort.
- The pacing sacrifices those hard-won moments.
- Trade concessions were hard won.
- The film is divided by its opening credits sequence, which breaks the film's hard-won mood with a brash pop-song.
- He reasons that they would fare much better if they worked to maintain that hard-won loyalty.
- I was too pleased with my own hard-won epiphany that the film's title is a palindrome to even notice that the credits had started rolling.
- Three trailers are the only DVD extras to compensate for your hard-won dollars.
- Activists view the department's changes as a serious threat to hard-won standards for organic products.
- Their reconciliation is hard won.
- We're reminded that the confidence she exuded at the end was hard-won.