How to Use unrewarding in a Sentence

unrewarding

adjective

• Step two is to tap into the reward centers of your brain and see how unrewarding worrying is.
  — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2021
• Because this is not Netflix’s first time at this frequently unrewarding rodeo.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 16 Mar. 2017
• In many of the cases, the endings with Heat leading men have been awkward and, at least initially, unrewarding.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2025
• The only way to buy specific characters skins now, even old ones, is to grind out very lengthy, very unrewarding challenges for currency.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• Though saving is unrewarding, capital is still costly for entrepreneurs.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• At a time when younger workers are often stereotyped as quick to abandon jobs that feel difficult or unrewarding, Dimon said discomfort is part of the process.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 19 May 2026
• Cerebral men of letters often make unrewarding screen protagonists, spending too much time in their own heads to fully engage as characters.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The hummingbirds quickly learned to associate one color with a rewarding sweet sip, and the other color with unrewarding plain water.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 18 June 2020
• Of course, that dissonance is part of the novel’s parody, too, and maybe why White Noise feels so confounding—though not unrewarding—to watch.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2022
• An unrewarding slog to assemble even a coherent single set build, much less giving players the ability to experiment with a whole bunch of them.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• The roles other than Fedora and Loris are thoroughly unrewarding.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023
• Playing at home has been an unrewarding experience for the Cathedral Catholic High softball team this season.
  — Terry Monahan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022
• Recovering yourself after a breakup is exhausting, unrewarding and painful.
  — Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
• The hummingbirds, which eat flower nectar, quickly learned to associate one color with a rewarding sweet sip, and the other color with unrewarding plain water.
  — Virginia Morell, National Geographic, 15 June 2020
• Some of the turnaround may be a result of the ways work has increasingly become uncertain and difficult for workers, let alone unrewarding and unfulfilling.
  — Adia Harvey Wingfield, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
• Workers are not accepting disengaging and unrewarding roles for themselves anymore.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
• These issues rendered the festival experience exhausting and unrewarding, contrary to what was promised when tickets were purchased.
  — Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
• These increasingly capable machines are often taking over tough, repetitive work that would be grueling and unrewarding for people.
  — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
• Such thinking can certainly thwart motivation and result in a joyless, unrewarding existence.
  — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 18 May 2020
• Infectious disease control is a noble yet unrewarding job, successes in containing disease outbreaks go unnoticed but mistakes bear the weight of human lives.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Maddie stands at the center of what is essentially a dissolving home, sending money to her mother, tending to her father and working a dull, unrewarding job at a theater company.
  — Diana Abu-Jaber, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
• Tracking down the truth both online and offline is increasingly a dim and unrewarding prospect when people have already chosen what to believe in—as in our experience of covering this very story.
  — Nikita Joseph, Quartz India, 17 Sep. 2019
• For the British driver, Formula 1 has always been the goal and that comes with the often slow, unrewarding slog up the European ladder system.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2022
• But what has emerged is a repetitive, unattractive, and finally unrewarding slog, in which Ducournau’s filmmaking verve itself seems to harden into lifelessness.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
• Jackie's face has become pale and her movement has slowed, but her random rummaging through memories continues to be a frantic — and dramatically unrewarding — pursuit.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Supporting England is a strange and often unrewarding experience.
  — SI.com, 18 June 2018
• Automation enables human workers to opt out of repetitive tasks that are physically taxing but otherwise unrewarding.
  — Massimo Bizzi, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
• Inflation is at a four-decade high, workers are walking away from unrewarding jobs, and Cold War tensions seem to be warming with each passing cluster bomb into Ukrainian suburbs.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 13 Apr. 2022
• Strategic incompetence is not necessarily a conscious choice so much as a reflexive rejection of activity that feels unrewarding and unimportant.
  — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• However, these project development processes can be costly and unrewarding if handled by an incompetent developer.
  — Nazariy Hazdun, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021