Herculean task
Example Sentences
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They’re facing a Herculean task, risking their safety and their futures for the sake of all Americans, born here or not.
From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025
Residents are now engaged in the Herculean task of clearing mud from their homes, some with their bare hands.
From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025
For USC it means adjusting to life without the focal point of its offense, a Herculean task that Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma knows all too well.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025
The dynamic duo's presence will lift the decibel level at Stade de France, and Wales face a Herculean task trying to silence it.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025
The Herculean task to which with unwearied effort they now addressed themselves was that of "builders" of the Constitution; the establishers, for the ages, of the fundamental law for a free people.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
