Similar words: be hard up, arduous, arduously, arduousness, hard, hardy, shard, hardly. Meaning: adj. not having enough money to pay for necessities.
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1. I'm a bit hard up at the moment.
2. Her parents were very hard up.
3. They're not really as hard up as they say they are.
4. He's hard up for ideas.
5. You'll have to pedal hard up this hill.
6. We're hard up for ideas.
7. The media are obviously hard up for stories.
8. The newspapers must be hard up for news if they've got to publish stories like that .
9. The editor of the magazine was hard up for material.
10. We're a bit hard up at the moment so we're not thinking in terms of holidays.
11. She is always hard up because she doesn't lay out her money wisely.
12. If you're so hard up for friends, why don't you join a club?
13. Guessing correctly that Bobby was hard up, Bacon gave him ￡5 and told him to get a meal at Wheeler's.
14. The media are obviously hard up for stories because they seem interested in what they refer to as our overcrowding problems here.
15. Goodman was always hard up and enjoyed the friendship and generosity of friends such as Francis Bacon who would help him out.
16. Scott was pretty hard up, so I lent him $20.
17. Bodie flung himself to the window-sill, leaning hard up against the plate glass and searching to right and left of the playground.
18. We were so hard up for entertainment we sat outside counting the cars go by.
19. He was rather hard up for a time.
20. Andrew has worked hard up to now.
21. Don't complain of being hard up before me!
22. He's very understanding: if I'm hard up by the middle of the week he'll always let me have a few groceries on tick till Friday.
23. My parents were hard up during the 1930 s but now they are well - off.
24. If you are hard up, I can advance you some money.
25. 'You could always go out with Steve.' 'I'm not that hard up!'
26. You can feel the leg muscles really hardening as you pedal hard up a hill.
27. He made the decision to lessen the angle of impact by closing the throttle, applying hard up elevator and full right rudder.
28. " The address, too,'she added to herself. " They must be hard up. "Sentencedict
29. Extreme contempt for their English proficiency, so I decided to hard up!
30. " I would, too,'said Lola. " But people never gave me anything when I was hard up. "
More similar words: be hard up, arduous, arduously, arduousness, hard, hardy, shard, hardly, hard by, diehard, hardware, hard hat, die-hard, orchard, die hard, hardcore, hardwood, hardship, pilchard, hardly any, blowhard, hard money, hardness, hardline, hard copy, hard core, hard disk, hard time, hard drive, hard-nosed.