How to Use hard up in a Sentence

hard up

adjective
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  • The Point: Democrats are hard up for positive news in advance of the 2022 midterms.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Again, at the moment there is no room at the inn, with the Heat hard up against the luxury tax.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • State police said Texas had been pulling hard up the slope and continued the track up to a ledge.
    — Bill Leukhardt, Courant Community, 22 Dec. 2017
  • For most of this past season, with the Heat hard up against the punitive luxury tax, the 15th and final roster spot was left vacant.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2023
  • But for the Heat, such marginal additions are not even a talking point at the moment, with the team hard up against the luxury tax.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Even after running hard up a hill for 5 minutes with a heart rate north of 180, somehow my legs still felt sluggish, and not just for the first rep, but all five of them.
    — Matt Bach, Men's Health, 25 Feb. 2023
  • People must have been hard up for entertainment 100 years ago.
    — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 14 June 2021
  • And Chicago, then as now, was hard up for money, so we really could have used those millions on something else.
    — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 21 Feb. 2018
  • She's worked tremendously hard up to this point with very little recognition.
    — Scarlett Newman, Teen Vogue, 12 Apr. 2019
  • In Pittsburgh, Pens fans were so hard up for an excuse for the 5-4 opening loss that there were bitter complaints that Taylor's ultralong anthem took the life out of the home crowd.
    — Star Tribune, 10 July 2021
  • Replacing Wooden, with his versatility along the line, is no simple task, but that’s part of why Auburn hit the portal hard up front.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The Good Place is simply in the unique situation of having this process be made explicit as part of the show’s plot, rather in the chemistry between the actors or the feeling that the writers’ room was hard up for ideas.
    — Eric Thurm, Esquire, 18 Jan. 2018
  • But already hard up again the luxury tax, that does not appear to be an option, almost assuredly to open the regular season with 14.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • And what about the workers who will remain unemployed—those who won’t snap back to work because the businesses that employed them collapsed and because many of the ones left will be too hard up to hire again anytime soon?
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 28 May 2020
  • Apparently, people who rent airplanes are just as hard up as country club members.
    — Dustin Gardiner, azcentral, 27 June 2018
  • There are also holograms, too, if management is especially hard up for cash.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Their efforts beautified what would’ve otherwise been an empty lot, and provided a pantry for immigrants and working-class folks hard up for fresh food.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • An outside offer of the full midlevel could still potentially trump a return offer from the Heat, who are hard up against the punitive dollar-for-dollar luxury tax.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2018
  • These tropes are resistant to the facts on the ground, where the art form is hale and hearty (albeit a little hard up for cash), but one formerly common narrative of decline has largely disappeared in the face of incontrovertible strength.
    — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 17 July 2019
  • Our good friend has been working hard up at Harvard this semester, and also providing Alabama with his football expertise back at home.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 14 Oct. 2021
  • So whether educated or uneducated, the majority of Trump voters are not hard up.
    — Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Now, ruled by monopolies, marred by toxicity, and over-reliant on precarious labor, Silicon Valley looks like it’s finally run hard up into its limits.
    — Brian Merchant, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2022

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