How to Use difficulty in a Sentence

difficulty

noun

• She underestimated the difficulty of saving so much money.
• And there are now three difficulty options that can be changed at any time.
  — Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
• The difficulty level of the game may change, but the rules rarely do.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022
• Proof, if any were needed, of the difficulty of such a process.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
• The difficulty lies in knowing when to sell, how to sell, and at what price to sell.
  — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
• The difficulty isn’t so much with what’s unknown as with what’s known.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
• That is the game’s difficulty, too.
  — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
• Talk about the difficulty of a mission like that.
  — ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
• The difficulty is juggling these plates all at once.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
• Then the difficulty picking up the ball out of the pitcher’s hand at the plate.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
• But just as difficulty hits its peak, the price of the coin has plummeted.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 17 June 2022
• Each route has its own level of difficulty.
  — Trista Kurniawan, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
• Well, the degree of difficulty and stress was one of the leading things that drew me to it.
  — Bon Appétit, 18 Dec. 2024
• There are difficulties to it, but there are also great rewards to it.
  — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 1 June 2026
• And the difficulties of life in the New World?
  — David Kamp, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
• That’s what these two weeks should remind us, not just of this year’s start but last year’s difficulty, too.
  — Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2025
• The game’s open world affects its difficulty in ways that new and old players will have to bear in mind.
  — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
• The pit bull was weak and, as police found, had difficulty standing.
  — cleveland, 8 Nov. 2022
• But the nature of the difficulty has both changed and increased.
  — Harvard Business Review, 17 June 2026
• Back then, the sport for Glenn wasn’t about medals and scores and degrees of difficulty.
  — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
• But the proper response to that difficulty isn’t to back away.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
• The game makes up for this difficulty drop with killer aesthetics.
  — James Perkins Mastromarino, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
• In rare cases, large amounts can lead to throat swelling and difficulty breathing.
  — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 July 2026
• But that was only the start of Manilow’s health difficulties.
  — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 1 June 2026
• Which, for me, has always been full of difficulty and challenge.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
• In rare cases, large amounts can cause throat swelling and difficulty breathing.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
• The difficulty comes from the nature of the sun itself.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
• Miller showed the struggles of a man who often has to mask his difficulties with a smiling face.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026
• And thank the goddess for the difficulties.
  — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
• Unions in some states have argued that the pay is too low for the difficulty of the work and the hazards faced on the job.
  — Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022