How to Use burdensome in a Sentence
burdensome
adjective- The responsibility has become burdensome.
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The lower the price of the ticket, however, the more burdensome the fees can seem.
—Emma Fox, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
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Learn about the fees and extra charges, which can be burdensome.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 5 July 2019
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By this stage of your life, the family home might be too large and burdensome.
—Terry Savage, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2022
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Still, the thought of moving anywhere new felt heavy and burdensome.
—Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 18 June 2022
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Aside from wages, health care is the biggest and most burdensome cost, Dziczek said.
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2019
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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
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Reform efforts across the country seek to make the bail system less burdensome on the poor.
—Collette Richards, CNN, 30 Aug. 2019
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As burdensome as the grief were the world’s new expectations.
—David Greenberg, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
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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
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Riders said there is no good reason the process is so burdensome.
—BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2021
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The Oregon Farm Bureau warned that the new rules are more burdensome than what the state’s industries face.
—oregonlive, 9 May 2020
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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
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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
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As a result, the process became too burdensome for those who were most distressed.
—Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
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And that aspect of it was kind of burdensome and dysfunctional—the scholar side of it.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 28 June 2022
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His scars, though not physical, may be the most burdensome.
—USA Today, 16 Oct. 2021
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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
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Credit card rates have grown more burdensome, and so have auto loans.
—Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
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But at that time the rules for removing living trees were more burdensome.
—Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2021
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The burdensome news is that those players are far more expensive in 2025.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2025
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That fact defeats the purpose of having a more costly and burdensome S-Corp.
—Brian Thompson, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
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The goal is to make funding less burdensome to local taxpayers, but the work has just begun.
—John Benson, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2021
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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
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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
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But the details of requests put out to providers left some groups frustrated, saying the rules were too burdensome and the budget too tight.
—latimes.com, 11 June 2019
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Big Bird’s suit, with its 5,961 feathers, was burdensome.
—The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019
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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
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They were often seen as helpful, but also as burdensome and even obstructive.
—Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2025
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The affordability crunch in the housing market weighs more heavily on young people, who have not had the time to accumulate as much wealth or equity as the older generations and are stuck with high price tags and burdensome mortgage payments.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
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