Definition of hard-fought in US English:
hard-fought
adjectivehɑrdˈfɔthärdˈfôt
Won, achieved, or contested with vigorous effort.
after a hard-fought match, the game ended in a scoreless tie
Example sentencesExamples
- It was a hard-fought, day-long battle with heavy losses on both sides.
- Many of these draws were hard-fought attempts to win, ingeniously thwarted.
- This has been a hard-fought election, a healthy contest for American democracy.
- Three of these hard-fought losses came against nationally ranked teams.
- We acknowledge the need to pursue the still unrealized vision for racial justice, while gratefully recognizing hard-fought victories.
- The union's internal power struggles were thrown into sharp relief, following a hard-fought contest for the post of president.
- The question whether grandparents should be able to insist on visitation over the objections of their children has been hard-fought on both sides.
- It tells the tale of a long march from the Nile to the Alps over three thousand hard-fought miles.
- Nevertheless, they eventually turned the land war into a hard-fought contest rather than a rout.
- Each game was very hard-fought, the toughest tournament ever, perhaps.