Sentence example with the word 'toughen'

toughen

acclimate, beef up, calcify, cornify, fortify, harden, lithify, prop, restrengthen, stiffen, temper

Definition v. make tough or tougher

Last update: September 21, 2015


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He toughened the wood by processing it. .   [Please select]

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Even so, she wasn't going to last long among the roughnecks in his camp if she didn't toughen up a little.   [Please select]

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All this time the weather was growing colder, and, toughened as the trappers had become by years of exposure, they suffered greatly.   [Please select]

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Reade's was toughened, and he learned to resist pain and to resent wrong, so that hatred of injustice has been called his dominating trait.   [Please select]

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He ought to be toughened by sun and wind, rain and cold.   [Please select]

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He checked himself, his weather-toughened skin reddening because he was afraid he had perhaps taken a liberty.   [Please select]

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They had slept but little the night before, and, toughened as they were by war, they had reached the limit of endurance.   [Please select]

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He soon had the knack of that: his muscles were toughened already.   [Please select]

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Birch and oak and maple were holding bared arms to the wind, as if to toughen them for storm and stress.   [Please select]

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I'm toughened up, I've had some good things knocked into me and a lot of fool things knocked out of me.'   [Please select]

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In the meantime, with every lengthening year, the friendship between Laurie and Ted toughened in fiber and became a closer bond.   [Please select]

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