How to Use hard-charging in a Sentence

hard-charging

adjective
  • That was the type of hard-charging run the Bears haven’t had nearly enough of.
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Still, the hard-charging producer behind some of the biggest hits of the ’80s and ’90s was attempting to mount a comeback.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But South Carolina called on its play throughout this season to hold off the hard-charging Rebels.
    — Pete Iacobelli, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2024
  • In this case, Murphy gives the group a hard-charging edge presence who should be stout against the run while developing his pass-rush plan. 9.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Colombia owed its wins over South Korea and Germany partly to a hard-charging style.
    — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Where to Play Skiing the Minturn Mile, an out-of-bounds run that spans three miles and drops 3,000 vertical feet, is a right of passage for hard-charging locals.
    — Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Still, in the past 2 ½ years, Willis has gained a reputation as a hard-charging prosecutor.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • With a very stiff 130 flex, these are a responsive touring boot for advanced skiers looking for hard-charging, precise gear.
    — Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
  • And without having to deal with the timing of a snap and hold, or fear of hard-charging opponents seeking to block the kick, Dicker knocked it through the uprights, cutting Denver's lead to 21-13.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2024
  • That’s only now become a reality thanks to grass-roots efforts and hard-charging surfers.
    — Jeré Longman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Moore hit a ball out to shallow left in the top of the seventh inning that hard-charging Royals left fielder MJ Melendez was unable to field cleanly.
    — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The hard-charging Korean brand renames and redesigns its compact sedan.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Cody Jinks knows the songs and topics on his album, Change the Game, out tomorrow (March 22), could be perceived as a bit of a departure from the hard-charging brand of country-rock his fans have come to expect.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Jim is hard-charging, the tech type who demands some impossible-to-produce prototype land on his desk by Friday.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2023
  • Arcangelo held off a hard-charging pack of four horses to win, with betting favorite Forte coming on for second.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 10 June 2023
  • But Hamas’s attacks of late last year, and Israel’s hard-charging military response in Gaza, have exploded tensions in the region.
    — Mike Lillis, The Hill, 29 Nov. 2024
  • For all his hard-charging obsessiveness, Stanton has a softer side.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Deep self-examination doesn’t always come easy to hard-charging CEOs.
    — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • His second win in the Travers, against a hard-charging Thorpedo Anna who very nearly ran him down, was narrow, to put it diplomatically.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • But his hard-charging leadership style has garnered perhaps as much attention as his track record, with some likening him to his counterpart at Tesla.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Despite the heroic efforts of the Mitsubishi public-relations department, the Starion's replacement missed most of the hard-charging two-lane stuff.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This is an excellent middle-of-the-road boot for a beginner-to-intermediate downhill skier who doesn’t need a super soft boot, but isn’t in the market for a hard-charging model.
    — Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Seacrest has a famously super-packed schedule, even by hard-charging Hollywood standards.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
  • That kind of online bravado is common in Discord gaming groups steeped in the macho, hard-charging culture of tactical shooters and military combat, Ivory said.
    — Drew Harwell, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2023
  • See The Connectors In an industry shaped over the decades by bombastic and hard-charging men, Drescher embraced her idiosyncratic and unabashedly female style.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
  • But Jobs’ hard-charging personality and zeal for perfection clashed with Sculley and Apple’s board members.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Linda Yaccarino, a hard-charging veteran of TV’s ad-sales wars, is in talks to become the next chief executive of Twitter, according to a person familiar with the matter.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 May 2023
  • Advertisement Iger decisively beat the onslaught from Nelson Peltz and his hard-charging allies.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The extra-long chest half-zipper let wearers dump heat on sunny resort afternoons or after hard-charging powder runs in Steamboat, Colo., and two zippered side pockets secured a phone or warm up chilly fingers.
    — Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Such hard-charging intensity can drive a company forward, and help a startup grow into a company with staying power.
    — Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 3 Feb. 2025

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