How to Use hard-hit in a Sentence

hard-hit

adjective
  • The map above shows sites that were particularly hard-hit.
    — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But then my neighborhood was hard-hit with explosions and fighting so the school closed down.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Carabobo, one of the regions closest to one of the epicenters, also appears to be hard-hit.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026
  • Many enjoy the country’s rural areas, which were hard-hit by the hurricane.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Some states are particularly hard-hit.
    — Jessica Seaman, Denver Post, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Some states are particularly hard-hit.
    — Lauran Neergaard, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The port city of Derna was especially hard-hit; the collapse of two dams wiped out a quarter of the area.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • While some visit the capital, many prefer the rural reaches of the country, areas that have been hard-hit by the storm.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
  • After-hours trade in tech, medical and automotive stocks of companies apt to be hard-hit by the tariffs also plunged.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2025
  • As the job market changed, recruiters were hard-hit, with heavy layoffs as employers responded to the new job market conditions.
    — Robin Ryan, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • One area that was especially hard-hit was east of Interstate 75, well away from the Gulf Coast.
    — Amy Green, Vox, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The proposition was championed by businesses and law enforcement groups who argued that retailers have been hard-hit by theft.
    — Annika Merrilees, Sacramento Bee, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Businesses and geographies that rely on foreign tourists for commerce could be especially hard-hit.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 28 May 2025
  • The western North Carolina city of Asheville was especially hard-hit.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Statewide, juveniles have been particularly hard-hit by a pandemic-era increase in shootings.
    — Freep.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • High school scores Amid widespread learning loss for students following school closures, math scores proved to be particularly hard-hit.
    — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 30 June 2023
  • Matlacha has been hard-hit by hurricanes, but many businesses and restaurants have reopened in this slice of Old Florida.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Even as government rescue workers make their way into harder-to-access mountain villages that were hard-hit, there is a desperate need for help across the region.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Ohio has been particularly hard-hit, with 51 commercial flocks affected in the past 30 days.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Children were particularly hard-hit, with the poverty rate for kids doubling compared with 2021.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • This holiday season, many American small businesses and consumers remain hard-hit.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Downtown hotels were particularly hard-hit by the pandemic, and some have changed owners or operators.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • Many such workers have been especially hard-hit by the inflation of the past few years, which has raised the cost of necessities like housing, day care and food much more than other goods and services.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The military, especially the Army, has been hard-hit by suicide for years and has increased funding for behavioral health counseling.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Officials were beginning to assess the extent of the destruction, especially on smaller and hard-hit islands.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
  • The small community of 400 was particularly hard-hit, with scores dead, missing or taken as captives to Gaza.
    — Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Deaths from rectal cancer are rising rapidly among younger adults, an alarming trend that is confounding scientists trying to understand why millennials are so hard-hit.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The Hale, however, sits in an area particularly hard-hit by changes to the economy following the pandemic and a massive shift to remote working.
    — Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Especially hard-hit, analysts warn, is the high-tech industry, a roaring engine of Israel’s modern economy.
    — Melanie Lidman and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
  • Government price setting also leads to less innovation, and in the case of the IRA, cancer research will be especially hard-hit.
    — Stephen J. Ubl, STAT, 6 July 2023

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