hard-wearing

Primus makes a natty, foldable, plastic version that's easy to clean and hard-wearing.

Kit corner 2011

Smooshy results in hard-wearing socks despite not having any nylon in it, does it?

Archive 2009-09-01 Jean 2009

For this new Neutra collection too, Tribù goes unflinchingly for surprising, hard-wearing materials: a frame in painted aluminium, injected under high pressure, and a seat in Batyline or bent beech wood, treated by the patented Belmadur® process.

Neutra Collection by Vincent Van Duysen 2009

Smooshy results in hard-wearing socks despite not having any nylon in it, does it?

Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

The Cinch Seat comes as four pieces of composite wood-board with a white, hard-wearing eggshell veneer, laser-cut so that all four pieces can be quickly slotted together to form a secure and very pretty booster-chair.

Boing Boing 2009

Or, failing that, any safer than say, shoving balled-up socks, some hard-wearing wash balls or a pair of clean hand warmers, for a decade or so, inside the body of a formerly healthy woman who has been warned in the small print that the surgical use of these objects is still at the trial stage.

Thanks, Joan Rivers, you're an object lesson to us all | Catherine Bennett 2012

The composite wood is extremely sturdy and lovely besides, but it's heavy, especially relative to equally hard-wearing (and much cheaper) plastics.

Boing Boing 2009

Or would I cherish my comic or my copy of the Koran printed on hard-wearing paper, still mostly readable even if one page was spoilt or fell out?

'Kindlemania' and the e[lite]-book Stroppy Author 2010

Or would I cherish my comic or my copy of the Koran printed on hard-wearing paper, still mostly readable even if one page was spoilt or fell out?

Archive 2010-01-01 Stroppy Author 2010

Some of whom wear heeled shoes to work, some of whom like wearing skirts, some of whom believe that ancient clothes with mud-stains and rips are appropriate for the office, some of whom either own about 20 identical multi-coloured argyll sweaters or have invented an amazingly hard-wearing substance for making one such sweater since they wear such a sweater most days three seasons of the year for eleven years ...

On Being a Woman and a Scientist Candid Engineer 2008