How to Use hard-driving in a Sentence

hard-driving

adjective
  • Thibodeau has been unfairly maligned for his hard-driving approach to the game.
    — Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • If your porch furniture is under cover, there's still a chance those cushions will get blown around or hit by hard-driving rain.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In the next season of Cross, Perlman will play a hard-driving officer.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2026
  • Screeching tires and a roaring engine offer an apt opening for this hard-driving song from these longtime metal masters.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 23 May 2024
  • But thus far, nothing touches the grit heard on his hard-driving album Long Ride in a Short Bed.
    — Tricia Despres, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2024
  • His management style is famously hard-driving and all-consuming.
    — Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Large city agencies are naturally resistant to change, new demands, and hard-driving bosses.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • In mere moments, Rebecca, a hard-driving businesswoman, makes the deal.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The 28-year-old has quickly become a critical performer with his hard-driving skating and tenacious mindset.
    — Eric Stephens, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • There is no record of how William’s wife greeted the news of the instant stepson with the polished manners, who impressed even his hard-driving grandfather.
    — Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Extreme Weather If your porch furniture is under cover, there's still a chance those cushions will get blown around or hit by hard-driving rain.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 June 2026
  • Momma Rose, Lee’s hard-driving mater familias, and the archetype against which any mother with a child in showbusiness has since been compared.
    — Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Their relationship has predictably evolved over the years, with Burghart starting as a hard-driving taskmaster and growing into a counselor.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • But ultimately its hard-driving and secretive negotiations may work against those goals.
    — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 17 June 2026
  • Teddy’s plan is to kidnap Michelle (Stone), the hard-driving CEO of Auxolith.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • His expansive sonic palette includes soaring anthems, tender ballads, and hard-driving dance tracks with a focus on thumping bass and earworm melodies.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 26 May 2026
  • But Gil and the Kills were a combustible bunch, and life on the road with a hard-driving band, while exhilarating, was ultimately no place for a little girl.
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
  • McLain, who is represented by hard-driving agent Scott Boras, wanted $3 million.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2023
  • He will be remembered as a hard-nosed, hard-driving player capable of playing multiple positions well without detracting from his skills as a hitter.
    — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The result is an occasionally awkward mix of gentle mystery and hard-driving suspense, but the easy camaraderie and lush descriptions paper over any plot holes.
    — Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The hard-driving dealmakers who Ellison will rely on to supply hits and bolster market confidence are undaunted.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 10 July 2024
  • The hard-driving late mogul and his high-level executives at his company, then known as Viacom, were dismissive of her talents and ambition.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • Artemis, the Grammy-winning all-star ensemble spotlighting women bandleaders, brings its bold, hard-driving sound to Saturday.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 25 Mar. 2026
  • That same year, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had spent just over a decade as Turkey’s hard-driving prime minister, became its president.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Bennett is a young, fast-moving, hard-driving, ambitious politician who has declared that all the members of his coalition will have to check their ideological ambitions at the cabinet room door.
    — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 15 June 2021
  • Belichick was notoriously stony and hard-driving, with a conservative play-calling approach; Saban was dynamic and fiery.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Brothers Osborne returns with a hard-driving, barroom-ready new track, while another brother duo, Band Reeves, melds country and pop with a faith-leaning message.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2025
  • For example, if a hard-driving founder exploits others in order to successfully execute on their vision for the company, the result can be a culture of mistrust and suspicion.
    — Tracy Lawrence, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The pleasantness of his company sits unsteadily beside his reputation for being, at times, hard-driving, harsh, and unempathetic.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
  • There are also psychological differences, with some research suggesting that hard-driving type A personalities don’t benefit as much from cheering.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025

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