grueling
Example Sentences
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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.
The investment bank’s settlement with a former analyst shortly before trial resolved a case that was set to examine the responsibilities of one of the most grueling jobs in finance.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.