Yet the pavement around the harbor bore the signs of hard usage.

Ye'll only make things worse if ye try any hard usage with 'em.

In the signs of wear that only hard usage could put on a weapon.

The car (the driver proudly told me) was built in 1974 and looked as if it had had hard usage every day since then.

Because, pet, your body needed time to grow accustomed to my hard usage.

This close, their once-fine clothing showed the wear of hard usage and harder travel.

Not that the coveralls showed any of the hard usage they'd been given over the past five weeks.

She had been like a pattern worn hazy by hard usage.

This path has been getting some hard usage, more than it usually gets.

"I built this thing to withstand hard usage," he declared with pride.