hard going in a sentence

Examples

1. It s hard going but the one benefit is that I have the freedom to invent things.
2. Clinton told reporters after his talks the negotiations were " going pretty well, but it's hard going ."
3. The film can be hard going.
4. Priestley admitted, " It's hard going in the booth with guys who have been doing it for years.
5. Putting all agents'code names, plus the names of agencies and operations, in all-capital acronyms makes for hard going.
6. That's now looking like hard going.
7. "It was really hard going in there day after day listening to people say things that weren't true,"
8. The current climate of mergers and downsizing makes particularly hard going for middle-aged men clustered in middle-management ranks.
9. Rising oil prices and a falling commodity market made for hard going in the Midwest during the 1970s.
10. It was open to fire from the opposing trenches and hard going generally slowed down any attempted advance.