A hard kernel of revulsion was planted within each of us.

To judge, pick a bright, hard kernel.

Though tragedy - death - has a hard kernel within it, and eventually we simply deal.

Pliny's natural history reports that the hard kernels of the cucus tree were turned to make the rings.

There, the popcorn would be trapped while the hard kernels fell through the mesh to the second bowl.

Still, through some strange quirk of fortune, we did find fruit, very dry, and also the hard kernels of dashen.

As satire, to be sure, but satire must have a hard kernel of truth to count.

It was the hard kernel of pain at the core of all she did.

But for all of the Stones' self-mythologizing, there was always a hard kernel of truth to the image.

He sees the hard kernel of truth between her words.