How to Use hardcore in a Sentence

hardcore

1 of 2 adjective
  • The cane shouldn’t be a huge shock to his hardcore fans, though.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 19 May 2026
  • But what’s your message to the hardcore fans?
    — Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • No hardcore golf fan will be surprised by the names Woods chose.
    — Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • There were a lot of hardcore fans that were unhappy with the first movie.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Joe was the hardcore punk who brought the heart and soul; Mick was the music guy.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Vonn is wearing a hardcore brace under her racing suit.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The hardcore track beast is done up in a bold tri-color paint that echoes the look of the spaceman’s iconic suit.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 June 2026
  • Jenkins was at the forefront of the hardcore punk and hip-hop scenes that existed side by side.
    — Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The storefront doubles as a concert venue, often for hardcore and pop punk shows.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • But the park isn’t just for hardcore adventurers.
    — Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe that’s because her last album, Brat, was a wild success as a hardcore dance record.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Order 4 took on The System in a hardcore war match.
    — Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Not all the [designers] are hardcore Jeep guys coming in.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • To paraphrase a 1998 track from Pulp, that’s hardcore.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 May 2026
  • The two-seater is one of the most hardcore GTs, first- or second-gen, to see release.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2025
  • This isn't a command-line interface just for hardcore wonks, either.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Some hardcore proponents aren’t that happy about the big-tent approach.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Manang isn’t just for hardcore hikers anymore.
    — Erin Levi, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The hardcore beadlock wheels mechanically clamp the edge of the tire to the rim.
    — New Atlas, 2 June 2026
  • These are not social democrats, these are hardcore godless communists.
    — CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • Xavier tours in a hardcore band and Elijah performs with his band Pink Laces.
    — Sonal Dutt, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Released in 2022, the most hardcore Boxster of them all is an elite sports car through and through.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The hardcore boxing fanbase who follow it week in, week out is a relatively small one.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • And hardcore music was not really my favorite.
    — Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Those kids that went to hardcore shows that didn't look like everybody else, that didn't follow the lifestyle of a hardcore kid.
    — Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • While some other creator tools are more hardcore, the Dot is a lot easier to get started with.
    — New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Musically, Deadguy was in a hardcore league all their own.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The hardcore band will release the project via Partisan on May 1.
    — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Ecno Evil takes a swing at the hardcore off-road camper market from different angle.
    — New Atlas, 30 Dec. 2025
  • This 260-gallon storage box is built to last thanks to internal steel bars and hardcore resin.
    — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2026

hard core

2 of 2 noun
  • He knows that he can count on the support of a hard core of party loyalists.
  • To the hardest of that hard core, this isn’t going to do it.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Since then, even as so much else has happened, that hard core hasn’t shifted.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • But only hard core, old school gamers are going to take notice.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • That peaceful approach could change if the hard core feels cornered.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
  • This does not suggest there is a hard core of consumers who will keep companies in line.
    — The Economist, 27 July 2019
  • What used to be the clinic’s waiting room now has a small stage where punk and hardcore bands come to play.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
  • Tuesday is for keynotes and consumer hardware, and the next three day are for hard core geeks.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • That's where the convenient features end because this bike is pretty hard core.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Pick raspberries when the fruit is firm but soft, deeply colored, and easily slides off the hard core.
    — Melinda Myers, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • None of this matters to Trump, who must appease the bigots who form the hard core of his support.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Not even the hardest core NRA types are happy about felons packing heat.
    — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 11 July 2018
  • According to Elon Musk, how long in 24 hours should someone rest from hard core work?
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • All of the adaptations hope to capitalize on the games’ devoted base of hard core fans.
    — Gianmaria Tammaro, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Many are peaceful, but a hard core have repeatedly attacked police and burned buildings.
    — Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Many cameras can be ruggedized with the addition of a case, but the GoPro is hard core on its own.
    — Gabrielle Hondorp, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2020
  • The 'curva' often alludes to the part of the stadium where a club's hard core spectators or 'ultras' sit.
    — Ravi Ubha, Gianluca Mezzofiore and George Ramsay, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Most of the talk was about the weather, football, home towns, and travel destinations, rather than hard core politics.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 16 Feb. 2020
  • This comes as a bit of a bummer for the many astronomers and astrophysicists who — not shockingly — are hard core Trekkers.
    — Eric MacK, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Twenty years after School of Rock, Jack Black is still living hardcore.
    — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The band formed in 2009, and have been evolving their brand of caustic but deeply fun hardcore through a series of lineup changes.
    — Zhenzhen Yu, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2023
  • With her powerful legs and rock-hard core, Magone can kick and walk on logs as narrow as 11 inches — sometimes for more than an hour.
    — Yadira Sanchez Olson, Lake County News-Sun, 27 June 2018
  • For the hard core hikers, anything under 10 miles in rugged conditions might not be considered a real hike.
    — Field & Stream, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Truss campaigned for her party’s leadership on a platform pandering to the Tory’s hard core.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Strong believers in political violence, that 5%, are the hardest of the hard core.
    — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
  • Experts on extremism say that the hard core of the far right is apt to become more extreme, and that there’s a high risk of political violence in the months to come.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The fourth generation relaunch maintains the 600 meter depth rating, but the redesign gives it more of a chic sports vibe than hard core dive watch.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The suffix -core comes from hard core, which at first (1841) referred to broken bricks or stones that formed the hard substratum of roads and foundations.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The Raiders were slipping back toward oblivion and eyeing two years of annoying lame duck status and the reality of losing their hard core fan base.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
  • There has always been a hard core of anti-gun extremists, exemplified by the 20 percent of persons in opinion polls who want to ban all handguns.
    — David B. Kopel, National Review, 16 Aug. 2019

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