Hardening is an English word with synonyms like symptom or activity. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hardening in a sentence
Related words
Hardening meaning
present participle and gerund of harden
Synonyms of Hardening
Using Hardening
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of harden
- Useful related words include: symptom, activity, action, natural action.
- In the example corpus, hardening often appears in combinations such as: hardening of, the hardening, hardening the.
Context around Hardening
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hardening
- In this selection, "hardening" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, home, understand, related, quirk, status and ability stand out and add context to how "hardening" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a further hardening of seoul and a general hardening of attitudes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hardening" sits close to words such as abi, abysmal and aqueous, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hardening
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As you'll recall, presbyopia is the age-related hardening of the eye lens causing blurred near vision. (18 words)
Poor sleep increases the risk of developing high blood pressure, atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), heart attack, and stroke. (19 words)
Home hardening and defensible space are essential for already existing structures, but such measures only reduce the chance of burning. (20 words)
Kirishima's hardening quirk is one that allows him to play defense against explosions and fire power, but, as Bakugo proves during the Sports Festival, there's only so long that Kirishima can keep his hardening up. (37 words)
Among the crime prevention initiatives of the Project Safe Delivery program include hardening blue collection boxes to make it more difficult for criminals access to their contents and installing electronic locks to replace the older arrow locks. (37 words)
A new feature for VMware Carbon Black Workload provides an enhanced way for organizations to evaluate CIS compliance and understand hardening status of the compute infrastructure in workload environments from the VMware Carbon Black Cloud console. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Kirishima's hardening quirk is one that allows him to play defense against explosions and fire power, but, as Bakugo proves during the Sports Festival, there's only so long that Kirishima can keep his hardening up.
A new feature for VMware Carbon Black Workload provides an enhanced way for organizations to evaluate CIS compliance and understand hardening status of the compute infrastructure in workload environments from the VMware Carbon Black Cloud console.
As you'll recall, presbyopia is the age-related hardening of the eye lens causing blurred near vision.
Earlier this week, South Korea called Pyongyang its "enemy" in a defense document -- the first time in six years it has used the term, signaling a further hardening of Seoul's position.
Hardening that infrastructure is not optional: future heat waves could ignite fires that destroy vital transmission and generating infrastructure, just as the same heat waves trigger demand for air conditioning in the urban south.
In the UA cavalry event, for example, Monoma shocked Bakugo with his own usage of Explosion, then defended himself when he borrowed Eijiro Kirishima's Hardening ability.
More fire specialists like Koch are starting to shift their focus from fuels reduction in the forest to home-hardening (, “Slow burn,” May 3, 2023), something Koch says was less valued in the past.
So the only real consequence of the report could be hardening Russia's resolve to win the war and/or firming up support at home.
The proposed program includes wildfire mitigation by hardening infrastructure and increasing situational awareness and control — which includes cameras, sensors and reclosers — that are targeted to areas prone to wildfire.
These plans offer residents the opportunity to identify projects and needs across the county, from solutions like home hardening and grazing to forest thinning.
U.S. President Joe Biden's visit to Kyiv and Russian President Vladimir Putin's abandonment of the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty with the U.S. signalled a hardening of positions.
Among the crime prevention initiatives of the Project Safe Delivery program include hardening blue collection boxes to make it more difficult for criminals access to their contents and installing electronic locks to replace the older arrow locks.
Berlin’s hardening tone is partly a response to fears over Israel’s continued insistence that it must enter Rafah in order to pursue Hamas operatives it says are in the southern Gazan city.
Home hardening and defensible space are essential for already existing structures, but such measures only reduce the chance of burning.
I'd call that a "hardening" of Sinwar's position that preceded Netanyahu's demand for control of Hamas' potential lines of communication.
Instead, there has been a general hardening of attitudes and a sense that Israelis and Palestinians feel further apart than ever.
Over time, we learned that playing defense — convoys, hardening the merchant ships with barbed wire, security details on large merchant ships, shared intelligence — was necessary but not sufficient.
Poor sleep increases the risk of developing high blood pressure, atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), heart attack, and stroke.
The company’s IP Accelerated initiative aims to expedite IP integration and silicon bring-up, offering architecture design expertise, hardening, and signal/power integrity analysis.
The department should also evaluate other states’ approaches to protecting residents against catastrophes, including premium assistance, disaster recovery assistance, and incentives for home and community hardening measures, the report says.
Common combinations with hardening
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hardening of 36×
- the hardening 17×
- hardening the 7×
- hardening and 6×
- and hardening 6×
- or hardening 5×
- work hardening 5×
- kirishima's hardening 3×
- of hardening 3×
- are hardening 3×