toilsome

Example Sentences

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So let’s examine how much the average federal lawmaker does take to live his or her toilsome life.

From Los Angeles Times

The push for power in football has arrived, but the fight to actually attain it is far more complicated and toilsome.

From Washington Post

When I was at university, some 20 years ago, learning about the world was a tactile, toilsome sort of experience.

From New York Times

The historian Thomas Carlyle considered Muhammad one of history’s heroic greats, yet called the Quran “as toilsome reading as I ever undertook. A wearisome confused jumble.”

From New York Times

Later, when asked about his difficulties against USC’s zone, Leaf seemed to concede that the Trojans had made the game more toilsome than usual.

From Los Angeles Times