How to Use rigorous in a Sentence

rigorous

adjective

• We subjected the data to a rigorous analysis.
• To become a B Corp, Wildling had to go through a rigorous process.
  — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• All of the actors were game for the rigorous training, which stretched across five months.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• As for the North Loop, the next step would be further discussion and rigorous study.
  — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 17 Mar. 2025
• Customers need to be rigorous in the sales inquiry process.
  — John Hayes, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022
• This should prompt you to hold off on any rigorous workouts until the cause of the pain is determined.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 12 Jan. 2024
• The hiring process is rigorous and can typically last over a year due to the depth of the background check.
  — Bydonald J. Mihalek, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2022
• But Aja’s access to rigorous academics came at a price.
  — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
• Piccioli, who grew up in a coastal town, was able to bring a relaxed air to the rigorous discipline.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2024
• Biking is smooth and the frame is sturdy, heavy and durable enough to handle rigorous cycling.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025
• Yet activists have been rigorous in their campaigns for change on social media and on the ground.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 13 May 2022
• The rigorous program was designed to bring entrepreneurship into the lives of the inmates.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2024
• In the most rigorous trials, neither the subject nor the researcher knows what any person gets until the end of the trial.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 19 Oct. 2022
• This cooling pillow went through a rigorous testing process over the course of 1.5 years to perfect the product.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 5 Jan. 2023
• But because there hasn’t been rigorous—or in some cases any—testing, there’s no way to tell.
  — Time, 20 Jan. 2023
• London has such high rates of EV owners driving for Uber because of the city’s rigorous clear-air laws.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 8 June 2023
• Two decades of rigorous research built the business case for DEI efforts.
  — Anu Gupta, Harvard Business Review, 24 Oct. 2024
• That’s the cost of such rigorous theming: Since you’re supposed to be inside a game, anything that gets in the way of that illusion is banned.
  — Todd Anderson, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
• The process is far more rigorous than for any other mode of public transportation.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2023
• And the Bruins played a rigorous out-of-state schedule to prepare for another run.
  — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2024
• Both are rigorous yet accessible, and both may leave you hungry to see the artist in concert.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• At 73, the '80s icon is as fit as ever thanks to a combination of his rigorous workout routine and a healthy diet (plus he's got the abs to prove it).
  — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
• But larger studies on ivermectin were underway at the time, and those promised to be more rigorous.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• Taking the microphone after Harris, Walz revved up the crowd for the rigorous campaign to come.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Aug. 2024
• Some of the most rigorous training is reserved for the most difficult of cases — those calling for the death penalty.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 7 May 2022
• The study — the most rigorous test to date of a technology 30 years in the making — had technically failed, as so many had before it.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 2 Nov. 2023
• Any sanctions from the agency could force Neuralink to begin the rigorous approval process anew.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• For years, Nicole Olson had longed for a baby and gone through a rigorous and emotional adoption process.
  — Madeleine Chinery, The Arizona Republic, 26 Dec. 2021
• Taking the rigorous steps to join the community opens up a whole new world of possibilities.
  — Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2025
• Ramsay takes on the rigorous regimen just 10 months after a serious biking accident in Connecticut last June that left his ribs heavily bruised.
  — Erin Clements, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025