Hard-bitten in a sentence as an adjective

On the other hand, diplomats aren't all hard-bitten cynics.

It's an extraordinarily Spartan and hard-bitten way to teach these lessons.

But WeWork is renting space from hard-bitten landlords run by professionals, and those companies have plenty of alternative tenants if they don't like WeWork's terms.

Our military history has largely consisted in our conflicts with France, but Napoleon and all his veterans have never treated us so roughly as these hard-bitten farmers with their ancient theology and their inconveniently modern rifles.”

Hard-bitten definitions

adjective

tough and callous by virtue of experience

See also: hard-boiled pugnacious