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.
• Yemen is the most difficult place in the world to be a child.
  — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• To have to turn around and push a plunger is difficult.
  — Melissa Chan, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
• What’s been the most difficult glacier to cross so far?
  — National Geographic, 3 July 2019
• First, the job is many things, but difficult is not one of them.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2023
• But staying on the good side of the rules shouldn’t be difficult.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• The pass was high and inside and would have been a difficult catch.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2021
• Your question is difficult due to the lack of specifics.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2020
• The work will be difficult and take time, but it must be done.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 20 June 2018
• This love is what makes weeks like the last one so difficult.
  — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 3 Dec. 2018
• Your child has to feel safe to come to you with difficult matters.
  — Irina Gonzalez, Parents, 23 Oct. 2023
• Finding the best board games for teens doesn't have to be difficult.
  — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Teen Vogue, 27 Mar. 2020
• Those things are easy to say but much more difficult to do.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 2 Jan. 2021
• Some had difficult childhoods and looked to sports as a way up.
  — Michael Murney, Chron, 3 Jan. 2023
• Choosing the right serum for your skin type doesn’t need to be difficult.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 22 Nov. 2022
• Moving the ball in the red zone is more difficult than elsewhere.
  — Emmanuel Morgan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2021
• The next 24 to 48 hours could be the most difficult, Reuters reported.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
• The even more difficult trick would be doing it all again.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2023
• Then, in the past decade, his life got markedly more difficult.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2022
• But that’s difficult for us in the news media to accept.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• But staying in shape throughout the last year and a half has been difficult.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• Cradles may be difficult to adjust to the size of your phone.
  — Ethan May, The Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2020
• The law’s fine print could make that mission difficult to achieve.
  — Julie Bykowicz, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
• The second half, a lot of guys stayed down for cramps and grabbing their faces and making the game difficult.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 8 June 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024