How to Use burdensome in a Sentence

burdensome

adjective

• The responsibility has become burdensome.
• The lower the price of the ticket, however, the more burdensome the fees can seem.
  — Emma Fox, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• By this stage of your life, the family home might be too large and burdensome.
  — Terry Savage, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2022
• Still, the thought of moving anywhere new felt heavy and burdensome.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 18 June 2022
• The out-of-pocket costs can be burdensome for patients as well, likely putting it out of reach for many.
  — Adam Gaffney, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
• As burdensome as the grief were the world’s new expectations.
  — David Greenberg, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• The goal for each stage is to get the key to the door, but that can be burdensome because the item disappears after 15 seconds if Mario puts it down.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
• Chapter 1: The First Lieutenant Each man in the squadron carried, along with a sea chest, his own burdensome story.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• As a result, the process became too burdensome for those who were most distressed.
  — Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• And that aspect of it was kind of burdensome and dysfunctional—the scholar side of it.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 28 June 2022
• Credit card rates have grown more burdensome, and so have auto loans.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
• Drucker said that staying on medications for the rest of one’s life may be more burdensome than a one-and-done surgery.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 12 June 2023
• The changes are in line with the government's promise to make restrictions less burdensome while still trying to contain the virus.
  — Huizhong Wu, ajc, 8 Dec. 2022
• The result will be more burdensome loan costs for both consumers and businesses.
  — Cora Lewis, Fortune, 3 May 2023
• In large part because of the burdensome debt levied by France in exchange for its freedom, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• Those higher rates have already sent home sales tumbling, made the prospect of buying a new car more burdensome, and pushed credit card rates up.
  — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
• Higher rates have already sent home sales tumbling, made the prospect of buying a new car more burdensome and pushed credit card rates up.
  — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2022
• Millions of people, all stuck beneath a thick layer of burdensome heat.
  — Dan Lambe, Treehugger, 20 July 2023
• The task of getting to the lots and offices can be burdensome in cities where access to public transportation is limited.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023
• Some of these precautions implemented by the service were too burdensome for those who needed help the most.
  — Becca Andrews, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2022
• The structural problem is that our whole system of online passwords is unsafe and burdensome.
  — Monique Woo, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• Plus, having to wear a second product to get the full functionality of the smartphone seems burdensome.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2023
• Those burdensome things didn’t endear him to many and with him now a distant memory, the page can be turned on a chapter that wound up having more of a horror show vibe than a feel-good script.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 9 Feb. 2024
• But the bill is a controversial proposal that many other businesses and groups in the state oppose and say will be too burdensome.
  — Sophie Austin, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, most patients have no means of avoiding the burdensome process that has become a defining feature of American health care.
  — Lauren Sausser, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
• The rise of name, image and likeness deals and the one-time transfer exception have made roster management more burdensome than ever.
  — Greg Luca, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2023
• Many of them are career federal workers reluctant to hand over power to Mitch McConnell and the party that sees them as burdensome to the nation.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
• While the city should be committed to the goal of historic preservation, reviews should be efficient and not overly burdensome.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• This is a potentially burdensome step, depending on how easy the detectors are to use and access.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
• The judge also granted the state access to all photos and videos of the girls in competitions from the past three years, even though the girls’ attorneys had argued that would be unduly burdensome.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024