burdensomely

Example Sentences

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Thus, he uncorks sentences like this: "we is all of us taking a deserved rest, for we expended a prodigious, a fantastic, a burdensomely amount of laboriousness and energy."

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021

Such frustration fell most burdensomely on 16,000 TWA travelers temporarily stranded in Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both are burdensomely decorated for bravery in action, Gen. Neville having the edge with a Congressional Medal of Honor for the cool way he seized Vera Cruz with the Second Regiment in 1914.

From Time Magazine Archive

In reality he had come home to look after his affairs, which had grown burdensomely prosperous, and then sail back with all the decorous haste allowable.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

The knowledge of America even now possessed in Europe is not burdensomely great.

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford