After long years of hard use, the voice still has the range, flexibility and projection it always had.

Over the years it had seen a lot of hard use.

The blue paint had been chipped off by hard use.

"It's when your man makes up for the hard use of the night before."

This car has sustained damage from the hard use we have given it.

"None that would stand up to a day's hard use?"

He saw some hard use after you were sent away.

In the center of the pegged floor stood a large table that had seen hard use.

Everything had the patina of hard use and loving care.

The clothes seemed sturdy enough, but showed signs of much hard use and washing.