Examples of hard sell in a Sentence
Such an expensive project will be a hard sell during these slow economic times.
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Forming a local committee wasn’t a hard sell, said Jennifer Cacciapaglia, director of that Rockford office, which is in Winnebago County.
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Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 26 Feb. 2025
This particular tension is unlikely to go away; slow, dogmatic passing football has always been a hard sell in a stadium where arch-pragmatists like Mourinho and Antonio Conte were so enthusiastically embraced.
—Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Finding pleasure in that seemed like a hard sell, but Ben went looking for it.
—Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2024
And no, Aho didn’t spend all his time in Montreal and Boston giving Rantanen the hard sell on sticking around for, say, eight more seasons.
—Mark Lazerus, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
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Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 26 Feb. 2025
This particular tension is unlikely to go away; slow, dogmatic passing football has always been a hard sell in a stadium where arch-pragmatists like Mourinho and Antonio Conte were so enthusiastically embraced.
—Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Finding pleasure in that seemed like a hard sell, but Ben went looking for it.
—Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2024
And no, Aho didn’t spend all his time in Montreal and Boston giving Rantanen the hard sell on sticking around for, say, eight more seasons.
—Mark Lazerus, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hard sell
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“Hard sell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20sell. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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