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Definition of Toughest
1. tough [adj] - See also: tough
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toughest
Literary usage of Toughest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hortus Inclusus: Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to by John Ruskin (1902)
"All the milk turns sour, and one has to eat one's meat at its toughest or the
thunder gets into it next day. FOAM OF TIBER. ..."
2. Fifty Years a Detective by Thomas Furlong (1912)
"... doubted but that it was a case of remorse that caused the white John Perry to
commit suicide, and not humiliation. THE toughest OF TOUGH TOWNS. EAST ST. ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on the Construction and Formation of Railways: Showing by James Day, engineer Jas Day (1839)
"... extensible or malleable prevents exfoliation—Resists separation from its
adjoining particles with nearly equal forces —Cast-iron hardest and toughest at ..."
4. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1869)
"The latter, one of Fife's build, is a fast boat, having made the toughest fight
with the Don she ever encountered from an eight-tonner. ..."
5. Expanding Housing Choices for Hud-Assisted Families: Moving to Opportunity by DIANE Publishing Company (1997)
"... "Highly concentrated minority poverty is urban America's toughest challenge...Our goal
is to give all public housing residents a genuine market choice ..."
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