grueling
Example Sentences
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There was Kent Brantly, 27, a family physician who, owing to the grueling hours and oppressive African heat, had lost 30 pounds even before he succumbed to hemorrhagic fevers.
The stunt took 40 hours to film, but the grueling effort paid off: It became his first viral video and helped launch him toward fame, Donaldson said recently on “The Tonight Show.”
From MarketWatch
Bowling, you may know from experience, is not easy; professional bowling is grueling, a grind.
From Los Angeles Times
He goes through grueling heat-training sessions in a lab at the University of Connecticut and in a Colorado hospital.
To my chagrin, being young and self-involved, as well as working a grueling summer job, I remember that I was almost oblivious to the crisis.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
