How to Use arduous in a Sentence

arduous

adjective
  • He went through a long and arduous training program.
  • It is touted as the most arduous speed boat race in the world.
    Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The game marked the end of an arduous stretch for the Seawolves.
    Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • But for all the ground that’s been gained, the road ahead is arduous.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2023
  • While the work can be arduous, the pups and their handlers have fun on the job.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The reunion was as joyous as the path to get there was arduous.
    Drew F. Lawrence, CNN, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Still, there are some signs that the road ahead may not be as arduous.
    Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2021
  • The process turns out to be long and rather arduous, but rewarding in the end.
    cleveland, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The process of trying to find someone to help him make the beer was arduous, too.
    Outside Online, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The work at the restaurant also turns out to be arduous and the learning curve steep.
    Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 7 May 2018
  • The work was arduous but Chamariya and the others did not mind it.
    Aarefa Johari, Quartz India, 1 July 2019
  • Those surveyed shared that the process to secure a new role has been arduous for them.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The most arduous and delicious part of this process was the research.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 9 June 2022
  • Hilliard's journey has been long and arduous to get to this point.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Nelson's road back to the major leagues has been arduous, to say the least.
    Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 June 2019
  • But the hunt can be arduous and fruitless in some cases.
    Alex Leary, WSJ, 22 June 2019
  • The arduous journey that the female eels had to make, for thousands of miles, back to the ocean to spawn.
    Okwiri Oduor, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • The fight to find new treatment options for cancer has been a long and arduous one.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Bart was supposed to get the night off after two arduous games behind the plate.
    Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 22 Aug. 2020
  • The writing of one’s life story in book form can be an arduous task.
    Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The road from Afghanistan to Europe is long and arduous.
    Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Which team would the Ravens least want to see after their arduous climb back to the playoffs?
    Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • That can be an arduous process even for small outbreaks.
    NBC News, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Trying to replicate them in a such a high-rent city was an arduous task.
    Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The arduous process can stretch over more than a year and has many phases — the stages of homelessness.
    Written By Nikita Stewart; Photographs By Sam Hodgson, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
  • The current app store install process is not that arduous.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Getting the details right may be arduous, but all the effort seems worth it.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 13 Feb. 2022
  • State health workers then set about the arduous task of contact tracing.
    WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
  • It's been such an arduous writing journey getting to the end.
    Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2022
  • But nonprofits say the process shouldn’t be this arduous.
    Sara Harrison, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020

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