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
• Aside from wages, health care is the biggest and most burdensome cost, Dziczek said.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Reform efforts across the country seek to make the bail system less burdensome on the poor.
  — Collette Richards, CNN, 30 Aug. 2019
• As burdensome as the grief were the world’s new expectations.
  — David Greenberg, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• Americans have spent some of it, saved a lot of it and used large portions to pay down burdensome debt.
  — Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2021
• Riders said there is no good reason the process is so burdensome.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2021
• The Oregon Farm Bureau warned that the new rules are more burdensome than what the state’s industries face.
  — oregonlive, 9 May 2020
• 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
• His scars, though not physical, may be the most burdensome.
  — USA Today, 16 Oct. 2021
• And suddenly they’re being made to feel like this rather burdensome person who has to have a cup of tea.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
• Credit card rates have grown more burdensome, and so have auto loans.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
• But at that time the rules for removing living trees were more burdensome.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2021
• The burdensome news is that those players are far more expensive in 2025.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2025
• That fact defeats the purpose of having a more costly and burdensome S-Corp.
  — Brian Thompson, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• The goal is to make funding less burdensome to local taxpayers, but the work has just begun.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2021
• 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
• And paying for tests is burdensome for the many people on Medicare who have modest means.
  — Amy Goldstein and Christopher Rowland, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2022
• Big Bird’s suit, with its 5,961 feathers, was burdensome.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019
• Some people fear that a VMT fee would be more burdensome for low-income households.
  — Peter R. Orszag Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune, 23 June 2021
• 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
• Lawn mowing, on a square foot basis, is the least burdensome form of gardening.
  — The Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2020
• The Illinois House of Representatives is considering a bill that would impose new, burdensome regulations on parents who homeschool their children.
  — James R. Mason, National Review, 5 Apr. 2025
• Many industries began to complain about burdensome regulations that were not only costly but also difficult to navigate.
  — Eric Reicin, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025