8 sentences with 'tough'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tough and other words derived from it.
• « Similarly, it was a long time before 'weaponised' iron became available, as it took a long time to make iron weapons and armour tough enough to withstand battle conditions. »
• « The defeat of France and its Allied British Expeditionary Force is, in retrospect, all the more disappointing because the combined Allied forces outnumbered their German enemies and could, arguably, have put up a tough fight. »
• « The chronicles tell that almost a hundred years ago, a tough cowboy from the Wild West, called Rot-Gut Pete, disappeared in the Arizona desert, near Salome. »
• « It seems that the tough character had a penchant for drinking and more than one had warned him that alcohol was going to lose him. »
• « When the boy calls his classmates "weird", what does he mean by "weird"? Defining terms is a tough mental discipline that can help your child clarify his or her ideas. »
• « The 61-year-old, who walks with a firm step and sticks out his chest, is "small but tough", as the Spaniards like to say. And his rough-and-tumble face doesn't lie. »