How to Use undertaking in a Sentence

undertaking

noun

• The restoration of the old theater is a huge undertaking.
• He advised us against such a risky undertaking.
• This fact might have led them to doubt the whole undertaking.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• That would be a non-trival undertaking.
  — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
• Which is an undertaking most Hoosiers do not dare risk.
  — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
• And right at the end, with six outs to go, the undertaking nearly blew up.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• Taking down a bridge from afar is not an easy undertaking.
  — Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
• Just because a team takes a step back doesn’t mean the whole undertaking was a waste of time.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2023
• That was a very big undertaking.
  — Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
• This year’s best movies are bold undertakings both onscreen and off.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• Imagine how big of an undertaking this must be.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 21 Sep. 2025
• This was a huge, huge undertaking.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025
• Bringing that town to life would be an undertaking.
  — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 27 May 2026
• The move to retire abroad—whether full-time or even just for part of the year—is no light undertaking.
  — Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 2 Sep. 2025
• That was a huge undertaking, and our team worked really hard to bring that over.
  — Jamal Michel, NPR, 31 Aug. 2025
• But finding a way out of its struggles is a steep undertaking.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
• This is a pretty big undertaking, with a lot of moving parts.
  — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 12 June 2024
• That includes learning to play first base, an undertaking that is now more than a week old.
  — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 12 June 2026
• The huge undertaking with not one but five companies in charge meant a lot of cooks in the kitchen.
  — Lauren Victory, CBS News, 20 June 2026
• Some cakes with 'easy' in the title still end up being a huge undertaking, but not this cake.
  — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 5 Mar. 2026
• Rolling the rocket back to its hangar is a major undertaking.
  — Denise Chow, NBC news, 25 Feb. 2026
• Booking artists for a single club is a full time undertaking.
  — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• This was an undertaking that almost no one was asking for.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
• Their first big undertaking was the accent wall in the backyard.
  — Natalie Dayton, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Aug. 2021
• Buying a car can be one of life’s most stressful undertakings.
  — Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 17 Jan. 2026
• The two spoke almost every day and met once a week to help plan the massive undertaking.
  — Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 18 Sep. 2025
• This is not a small undertaking as these standards would need to be event specific.
  — Ashley Ward, STAT, 16 Aug. 2023
• Hosting overnight guests is a big undertaking.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2026
• While this sounds simple on the surface, the undertaking was not going to be a walk in the park.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 11 Jan. 2026
• The project-- a series of life size photos-- would be a massive undertaking.
  — al, 18 Mar. 2022