1.   We try to make ourselves comfortable on the hard bench, but there is no back to lean against.

2.   Our backsides were sore after sitting on those hard benches for so long.

3.   Laura sighed, leaning back on the hard bench and gazing up at the overcast sky.

4.   Barber sat on a hard bench in the austere surroundings of the prison during a recent interview and said he will accept whatever the courts decide.

5.   Behind a phalanx of lawyers, Klein sits on a hard wooden bench as the testimony unfolds.

6.   A jazz hall without hard benches.

7.   Hard wooden benches sit on a brick floor.

8.   It sits in plush seats or on hard benches.

9.   On this day the hard wooden benches were packed in this windowless waiting room in the courthouse.

10.   Seven months into her seventh pregnancy, Hanan Suelem fidgeted, shifting her weight on a hard bench in a bare-bones clinic.