Toughness Sentence Examples

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  • She'd never found someone with her mental toughness, someone who could challenge her.

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  • Its strength and toughness render it valuable for naval purposes, to which it is largely applied; its freedom from any tendency to split adapts it for clinker-built boats.

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  • Cheerleaders are tough, even if their toughness is topped with makeup and a bow.

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  • Poultry meat toughness reaches its maximum level as recently slaughtered carcasses are washed, but the meat becomes more tender as carcasses are chilled.

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  • Listeners must have felt that Today ' s chief inquisitors, John Humphrys and James Naughtie, had moderated their toughness when confronting politicians.

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  • Using stepwise regression of a number of features of the signal stronger prediction equations are possible (R = 0.95 for meat toughness ).

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  • Using stepwise regression of a number of features of the signal stronger prediction equations are possible (R = 0.95 for meat toughness).

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  • They average two or three friends, and other children seem to admire them for their physical toughness.

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  • A tad bit intimidating, spikes add an edge and toughness to any basic hair style.

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  • Some prefer fun colors like hot pink or green, but traditionally they are dark in color and give more of an illusion of "toughness" than its sweet and girly counterparts such as daisy chains or hearts.

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  • Thug tats used to signify toughness or affiliation with a criminal group.

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  • The Baby-G takes the toughness of the G-Shock and adds a touch of feminine resilience that promises style class, and attitude.

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  • The watch has something to offer everyone; seniors with low vision will love the time features, and athletes and youth will enjoy the watch for its toughness and cutting edge technology.

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  • Gung-ho spirit goes a long way, but there are cases where that toughness can create and aggravate problems.

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  • It gives with water a somewhat stronger mucilage than gum arabic, from which it is distinguished by its clear interior, fewer cracks and greater toughness.

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  • Unusually, it combines this hardness with a degree of toughness, so the deposit can stand up to high stress contact.

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  • The overall message is toughness, with the uniforms called "Let's Brawl" and numbers and lettering evoking the steel i-beams that their home is famous for.

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  • Such an alloy can be cast like ordinary bronze, but excels the latter in hardness, elasticity, toughness and tensile strength.

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  • In the form of plate it can be tempered and annealed till its elasticity and toughness are much increased, and it can then be formed into almost any shape under the hammer and punch.

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  • With repeated hammering, drawing out and annealing, it gains much in strength and toughness, and the addition of a very minute quantity of carbon converts it into steel, less tough, but of the keenest hardness.

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  • However that may be, I was struck by the peculiar toughness of the steel which bore so many violent blows without being worn out.

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  • Tillage operations on such land are easily interrupted by rain, and the period always much limited in which they can be prosecuted at all; the compactness and toughness of the soil renders each operation more arduous, and its repetition more necessary than in the case of dry land.

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  • The wood is highly valued by carriage-builders, upholsterers and turners, on account of its toughness and tenacity, and in Russia it is prized as firewood and a source of charcoal.

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  • The substitution of steel for iron as the material for rails which made possible the axle loads and the speeds of Lto-day, and, by reducing the cost of maintenance, contributed enormously to the economic efficiency of railways, was one of the most important events in the history of railways, and a scarcely less important element of progressive economy has been the continued improvement of the steel rail in stiffness of section and in toughness and hardness of material.

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  • It is certain that the structure existing in the alloy is closely connected with the mechanical properties, such as hardness, toughness, rigidity, and so on, that make particular alloys valuable in the arts, and many efforts have been made to trace this connexion.

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  • The wood of an old tree, on the other hand, has lost a great part of its toughness, and is of bad colour, brittle and often predisposed to decay.

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  • The most constant use of curled maple is for the stocks of fowling-pieces and rifles, as it affords toughness and strength combined with lightness and elegance.

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