How to Use painstaking in a Sentence

painstaking

adjective

• The book describes the election process in painstaking detail.
• Filling in these blanks was a painstaking effort for the team.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• For those that are, the painstaking work of being preserved can take years.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2023
• First the painstaking process of pipetting into tiny wells.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2022
• This painstaking method has changed the game and helped NCA stand out in such a crowded industry.
  — Tyler Giroud, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• What used to take years of training and painstaking hours of work can now be done with only a few taps of a keyboard.
  — Rahul Raj, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2023
• After more than a decade of painstaking work, Wisk Aero’s flying taxi is ready for the market.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2022
• Gazing down at the memorial, Krauss recalled the painstaking process that led to the opening.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2022
• The all-electric Rolls and the painstaking conversion process are covered in Momoa’s new show, On the Roam.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2024
• It was found only after a dogged shipwreck hunter kept up the painstaking hunt.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
• Much of this is largely due to Cameron's painstaking recreation of the titular ship.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
• The whole design process takes five painstaking years, from initial drawings to the vessel’s launch.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2023
• Tracking down derelict boat owners is a painstaking process.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• In New Orleans, that work is a painstaking mix of water testing and digging through old records.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
• That concern led to two years of painstaking work to map the seafloor with laser and sonar scanners in an attempt to increase their odds of success.
  — Nancy Averett, Scientific American, 2 Jan. 2024
• This is a painstaking process that involves careful study of how the actor uses his face, as well as how to blend the edges of the prosthetics.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• Even more painstaking for Cincinnati is the fact that its rushing offense (81.0 rushing yards per gamer) is ranked the third-lowest in the league.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
• Acquiring Hebrew, the language of his new home, was a slow and painstaking process for Appelfeld.
  — Elena Lappin, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• O’Brien appreciated the painstaking care even at the time.
  — Melissa August, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
• Can painstaking artists like Selick swim in today's streamscape?
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022
• Makkai shrewdly sets much of her book in 2018, a point in the arc of #MeToo that felt defined by the painstaking revision of one’s memories.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• In the midst of this painstaking work, her drinking intensified.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• While the results are in a sense spectacular, the point of this kind of painstaking work is not to draw attention to itself.
  — Darryn King, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• The painstaking preparations were put in place after wind gusts blew chaos into the 1997 parade.
  — Winnie Hu Emma Rose Milligan, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• The film details the painstaking process of finding and interviewing sources, as well as the challenges survivors faced in choosing to go on the record.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2022
• Settling on a Christmas tree theme can be as painstaking as landing on a gift idea for the dad who has everything.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, ELLE Decor, 8 Dec. 2022
• The work was painstaking — the restorers asked the contractors to bring them the hooves that had been attached to the plaza, but they were damaged beyond repair.
  — Curbed, 12 Jan. 2024
• Preparations took painstaking hours as hair was coiffed, and when needed, beards, were applied and trimmed.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 7 Jan. 2024
• But Manstrom’s senior night wasn’t any of that, instead serving as a haunting and painstaking reminder of what he’s lost.
  — Shane Hoffmann, oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2022
• Officials said identifying the remains of the dead among the ashes would be a long, painstaking process.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024