Examples of taxing in a Sentence
The journey proved to be very taxing.
a very taxing workload that is taking a lot of time to finish
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Apparently, one mile is such an arduous and taxing journey that poor people are forced to feed their children poison from McDonald’s.
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Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 8 Dec. 2025
Maintaining player buy-in while addressing tactical issues and subsequently evolving is more taxing when the initial freshness of a manager’s arrival dissipates and some weariness sets in.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
Running a company can be very taxing, said Lim, who works about 11 hours a day on average.
—Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2025
The contestants then had to compete in a physically taxing challenge that involved pushing a heavy cart along a bumpy path, stacking sand bags, climbing ladders, knocking discs off poles, and then finally knocking down four bamboo targets.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
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Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 8 Dec. 2025
Maintaining player buy-in while addressing tactical issues and subsequently evolving is more taxing when the initial freshness of a manager’s arrival dissipates and some weariness sets in.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
Running a company can be very taxing, said Lim, who works about 11 hours a day on average.
—Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2025
The contestants then had to compete in a physically taxing challenge that involved pushing a heavy cart along a bumpy path, stacking sand bags, climbing ladders, knocking discs off poles, and then finally knocking down four bamboo targets.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Taxing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/taxing. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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