Sometimes they resort to using hard-backed dining chairs, which is not comfortable.
Rescuers lifted several injured passengers out of the train on hard-backed stretchers and loaded them onto ambulances.
When he arrived in the country, he had been carrying a hard-backed plastic suitcase, which has never been traced.
This was a hard-backed case with soft rubber-like sides.
It was not the hard-backed classic navy suitcase, but a less well-known design.
The old brick community center, still outfitted with hard-backed restaurant booths, is now headquarters to a homegrown revolution, fighting to loosen the grip of coal.
All the fighters have to wear hard-backed leather gloves to protect their hands.
The set contains a collapsible hard-backed game board, three promotional cards, and six tokens.
The phone was always kept in a hard-backed protective case in a bag.
He sat straight up against the hard-backed seat on the train, as if in church.
1.1(of a book) bound in stiff covers.
a heavy, hard-backed volume
Example sentencesExamples
I picked up from the sofa a worn, hard-backed exercise book, a faded red, the spine split.
I found myself unaccountably giddy at the bonus features of the hard-backed notepads they offered.
I got a hard-backed notebook, and in that I jotted down every single penny that went in and went out.
On the mantelpiece is a small hard-backed book full of poems about motherly love, illustrated with florid pictures of angelic families.
I use a hard-backed, pocket-sized notebook for observations and diagrams.
Apparently an attempt at serious literature, it takes the form of a sombre, hard-backed, slim volume, unillustrated and typographically conventional.
I have listed those projects in a separate hard-backed journal because I feel I have more control of them when I can see them outlined on paper.
It was hard-backed and filled with glossy pictures and shiny, high-quality paper—her grandmother would have called it a coffee-table book.
We suggest that you invest in a hard-backed diary with one or two days to a page.