How to Use difficulty in a Sentence

difficulty

noun

• She underestimated the difficulty of saving so much money.
• Then the difficulty picking up the ball out of the pitcher’s hand at the plate.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
• In this case, the accolade serves to highlight the difficulty of his work.
  — Carita Rizzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
• Maps from the area’s visitors bureau offer a sense of the difficulty of each route.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2023
• Here’s this doe-eyed farm boy who doesn’t really know what’s going on, and is then faced with the first difficulty of the Empire.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2024
• There are way more extreme versions of PCOS that women have a lot of difficulty with.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
• Most students learn with them while in culinary school, but home cooks tend to stay clear due to the higher price tag and level of difficulty.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 June 2023
• The joy is that being able to metabolize the reality of the difficulty of the world.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
• The bizarreness of how last season played out adds a few degrees of difficulty to predicting what to expect this year.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• Despite the difficulties, Clark still sees her work as a mission, not just for her clients but for her own family.
  — Mya Frazier, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• Well, the difficulty in this area is that so much of this is novel territory.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• Still, Klein couldn’t help but notice that even Biden has had difficulty pulling back on a college-heavy agenda.
  — Rick Wartzman, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
• Timberlake rates Saturday’s dunk a bit ahead of his slam at OSU on the degree of difficulty scale.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2024
• There’s any number of them — the emotional difficulties of navigating the ups and downs of love.
  — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2024
• But the pandemic and the difficulty of the years leading up to it eventually forced her to abandon the city and head South to continue her project.
  — Elaina Patton, NBC News, 28 July 2023
• Some of the symptoms include chronic sore throat, coughing that draws blood, difficulty breathing and swallowing, voice changes and lumps in the neck.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 13 July 2023
• The drugged soldiers stumbled and had difficulty keeping their balance, the court proffer read.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2024
• Buyout fundraising has been slowed in part by the difficulty of exiting old deals.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• More difficulty awaits me upon arrival, where a sign outside declares tickets are sold out for the day.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
• The higher the difficulty the more Membux are available while there’s also a bigger risk of defeat.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2024
• But the scope of his difficulties was immense and often heartbreaking.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• This difficulty is not going away, and at first glance, there doesn’t seem to be an elegant solution at hand.
  — Amy Lafko, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• But the Jamaican team almost didn’t get their caps due to financial difficulties.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
• The right one can push you to overcome life’s greatest difficulties and find success in the most challenging scenarios.
  — Dr. Eric George, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• As a mother of two, the singer understands the difficulty of balancing family life and work.
  — Ariana Quihuiz, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
• The difficulties of securing loans and other lines of credit.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• The trails that line the lush hills making up the peninsula and outlying islands show off more than the city’s famous skyline, and at varying degrees of difficulty.
  — Condé Nast, Bon Appétit, 20 Mar. 2024
• Many of us are having difficulty putting food on our own tables, let alone bringing a dish to a party with enough food for possibly 20 to 25 people to sample.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2023
• Although a major plotline in Season 1 concerned the marital difficulties of Meredith and her husband, Seth, that’s now a thing of the past.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
• The frontal lobe of the brain, which is impacted by the disease, controls self-insight, which could speak to Willis’ difficulty in understanding the condition.
  — William Earl, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024