English example sentences with "hardscrabble"

On his recent visit with his grandparents in Boston, Tom listened with growing empathy as they related tales of their hardscrabble childhoods and their coming of age during the Great Depression. His grandfather also spoke of enlisting in the army during World War II.
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Chickens and pigs forage for food in the hardscrabble earth around wooden houses on stilts.
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