Taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance.
Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.
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Examples for "hard "
Examples for "hard "
1 First year was fine, he says, but second year was very hard .
2 But there's also a lot of hard work involved, often physical work.
3 It has been a year of hard work, focus, and great success.
4 Result: Stylish and yet hard to use and packed with proprietary technology.
5 Crew members don't just work hard -they often work every day.
1 China's new climate-related insurance services, however, often depend on heavy government subsidies.
2 Reporting remains subject to heavy legal constraint, thus key information remains obscured.
3 Twenty years of freedom have seen heavy investment is Soweto's public transport.
4 And Western Australia has particularly heavy penalties under its Public Health Act.
5 There is also new evidence that heavy precipitation has increased in Europe.
1 Mr Vailea said teachers punishing students physically is clearly against the law.
2 The market seems to be punishing companies in that position, he added.
3 It was punishing ; he had never before done such hard physical work.
4 The main end of the punishing affair was to feed their writing.
5 We could also start punishing all murderers with public torture and beheading.
1 The work was laborious and pointless, as far as Aylaen could see.
2 Time went on; things happened; but Ryecroft was still laborious and poor.
3 Similarly, advances in science and medicine have been achieved through laborious research.
4 In one minute the respiration was laborious , and the pupils were dilated.
5 Health and posterity are the portion of the poor- Imeanthe laborious .
1 The following year he had a gruelling training period in nine movies.
2 Few Irish athletes remain more committed, particularly in such a gruelling event.
3 A set of knives and the beginning of a gruelling training regime.
4 Yet again we have seen gruelling evidence thirty-two teams are too many.
5 Their ascent has been far longer and more gruelling than Veronica expected.
1 It was 13 weeks of grueling work chest-deep in water and cold.
2 Photo: supplied In the south island another grueling event is also underway.
3 A grueling multi-hour training session may call for 90 grams per hour.
4 A month of hard travel-aftera month of grueling training and heartache.
5 Ferreting him out was going to be a long, grueling , time-consuming process.
1 She had before her a toilsome journey in the companionship of men.
2 And now commenced their toilsome journey down the side of the cataract.
3 Contrast with this toilsome slowness the speed of the junk bound down-stream.
4 Two years or more passed away in quiet, toilsome days for Mildred.
5 It was the same old smoky, toilsome place, a perceptible bit lower.
1 New York then added two backbreaking goals late in the second period.
2 The going was harder now; it was backbreaking work pulling the line.
3 He'd take a bit of marching over that backbreaking work any time.
4 It was a backbreaking job, and the real work hadn't even begun.
5 Tommy wondered, too, whether his father's backbreaking work was hurting his golf.
1 Some of the Xenia are far-fetched and operose , while others sound rather vacuous.
2 But what an operose method!
1 She helped people with the arduous paperwork involved in collecting government aid.
2 Revitalizing the New Orleans streetcar system has been a slow, arduous process.
3 It is arduous and often painful, but helps provide for their families.
4 These arduous examinations, particularly the Leaving, are also a uniquely Irish experience.
5 It had been a long, arduous journey through New Crobuzon's vaulted conduits.
6 And you thought your 45-minute commute to work in London was arduous !
7 That is admittedly an arduous and often too drawn out a process.
8 Living in the north appeared to be an arduous occupation this week.
9 When interest rates peaked in 1990, payments were arduous but quickly declined.
10 The climb should not be arduous , although we cannot use the road.
11 The drive to the Dartmoor was no longer arduous and too long.
12 Finding replacements for creative directors can be a long and arduous task.
13 With the year 1876 the really arduous portion of the campaign commenced.
14 The means used were profuse, in proportion as the task was arduous .
15 For two Galway students, the exams have been a particularly arduous time.
16 You must not interfere in the rather arduous task I shall undertake.
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