How to Use difficult in a Sentence

difficult

adjective

• Some difficult days lie ahead of us.
• It's more difficult than it sounds.
• I had to make a very difficult decision.
• We were asked lots of difficult questions.
• I found myself in a difficult position.
• These changes will make life difficult for everyone involved.
• We'll be hiking over difficult terrain.
• What was difficult for me was to set the bar.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
• So this is a difficult time for us.
  — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
• Quad jumps are the most difficult of all the jumps.
  — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 7 Feb. 2026
• Yemen is the most difficult place in the world to be a child.
  — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• This love is what makes weeks like the last one so difficult.
  — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 3 Dec. 2018
• What song was the most difficult to write?
  — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
• The work will be difficult and take time, but it must be done.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 20 June 2018
• And that job could get more difficult.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 30 Apr. 2026
• First, the job is many things, but difficult is not one of them.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2023
• There’s a lot of very difficult shots.
  — ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
• This stage is difficult to treat.
  — Carrie Madormo, Health, 18 Oct. 2025
• Each song comes to feel like a safe friend and refuge from this difficult world.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
• It is forged in difficult texts.
  — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2026
• Your child has to feel safe to come to you with difficult matters.
  — Irina Gonzalez, Parents, 23 Oct. 2023
• Some had difficult childhoods and looked to sports as a way up.
  — Michael Murney, Chron, 3 Jan. 2023
• The pass was high and inside and would have been a difficult catch.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2021
• His benching near the end of the year made things difficult.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
• Making things even more difficult was the fact the course was on fire.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
• But staying on the good side of the rules shouldn’t be difficult.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• Rock salt is still difficult to find for many customers.
  — Jessica Riley, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
• My father was a very strict man and difficult.
  — Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• And as more time passed, reaching out felt more and more difficult.
  — Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• To not express that would've been very difficult as an artist.
  — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026