How to Use "hardscrabble" with Example Sentences

1. A few days after the funeral , my dad and I played golf on spur 's hardscrabble course .

2. It was a hardscrabble oil boom in jingbian .

3. For those hardscrabble families , government subsidies no doubt would be welcomed .

4. He was born in the hardscrabble south . His father was a drunk who killed his own brother in a gunfight .

5. Yet the emerging picture is horrendous , especially for ordinary people in the lesser cities and hardscrabble northern provinces .