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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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Back them, online was a hard sell for a market in which 70% of sales are made in-store.
—Kate Matthams, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Dropping a zero and cutting it in half was a hard sell to someone who doesn't hunt, fish or TRAP anything.
—Lisa Baker Gibbs My Roots Are Showing, arkansasonline.com, 10 Oct. 2024
Official messaging is generally upbeat and avoids a hard sell, even if the harsh and combative messages of a small subset of Chinese diplomats occasionally grab headlines.
—Daniel Mattingly, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2024
Eggnog Eggnog is a hard sell because most people have only had the bad kind, those boring and occasionally gross cartons that line the dairy section of the supermarket every December.
—Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1945, in the meaning defined above
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“Hard sell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20sell. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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