strenuous
Example Sentences
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The activity needs to be strenuous enough to leave you noticeably out of breath.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
“Limit strenuous outdoor activities to just the early morning hours,” the weather service in Oxnard said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
The strenuous attempts at hipness here are as antithetical to Orwell as any other element.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Justice Elena Kagan’s strenuous dissent notes all the history I’ve recounted.
From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026
“You can’t learn these things or inherit them,” she would tell him when she saw him going cross-eyed with concentration in his strenuous efforts to move the saltshaker without touching it.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Vocabulary lists containing strenuous
List 6
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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And Then There Were None
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