How to Use onerous in a Sentence

onerous

adjective

• The government imposed onerous taxes on imports.
• But red tape and funding make this an onerous journey when the idea was born in the 1990s.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• These were paid for by the French themselves in onerous costs set by the armistice agreement.
  — Robert O. Paxton, Harper's Magazine, 17 Dec. 2023
• Of course, even with onerous terms, some still decide to go ahead.
  — Jemima McEvoy, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• If the logistics are too onerous, the event could take place in the Denver metro area instead.
  — Eli Stokolsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• The loans that China provides are often opaque and onerous.
  — Shannon K. O’Neil, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• The reality of the cap hit to a team signing a QB to that kind of deal — a team already over the cap limit — is onerous.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
• This was supposed to unleash the British from all the onerous obligations of the European Union.
  — Peter Bergen, CNN, 20 Oct. 2022
• The prospect of over 850 miles of boring, back-and-forth driving suddenly seemed less onerous.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2022
• And in the 74 Pinehurst case, New York argued that the law is far less onerous than it was described in the petition for review.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
• The kafeel could exert onerous control over a worker’s life and movements.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
• Building an index, while onerous, is only part of the battle.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• The asbestos industry challenged the ban in court, and in 1991, a panel of federal judges deemed the rule too onerous and overturned it.
  — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2022
• The onerous workloads force site inspectors to rush through cases.
  — Maya Miller, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024
• These sequences sanctify the historical position that the onerous terms of the treaty are what led to Hitler and the Holocaust.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• But perhaps the most onerous thing (and this speaks to our essential good fortune) was the sluggish pace of our infections.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2023
• As such, industry pushback has been strong, claiming that the costs are too high or the requirements are too onerous.
  — Alloysius Attah, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
• Holding the tax preparer for someone else's tax bill feels onerous.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• All the sweet talk in the world may not be enough to make some onerous responsibility appealing.
  — Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2022
• Even as many banks have scaled back on onerous charges for not having enough cash to cover your purchases, there may still be some penalties.
  — Beth Pinsker, wsj.com, 27 Dec. 2023
• Such a process would be subjective, complex and onerous both to taxpayers and the government.
  — John Breaux, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
• But that all changed with the onerous lockdowns of 2022 spurred by the hyper-transmissible Omicron variant.
  — Time, 17 Jan. 2023
• The taxes are steeper and the rules more onerous than those in other agricultural sectors.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• These days, coming up with the money for the eidiya is especially onerous.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• The Heat are positioned to fill up to two spots on their standard roster and still remain below the NBA’s onerous luxury tax.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
• It’s been under those requirements for about a dozen years, although some of the restrictions have become less onerous over time.
  — oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2023
• For decades, the M.T.A. has financed projects by floating bonds that have created an onerous debt service burden.
  — Ana Ley, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• But each source of funding comes with multiple requirements, some of them onerous.
  — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• The perspective stressed by the Heat is that avoiding the luxury tax this season prevents the clock from starting on the onerous repeater tax in future seasons.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2023
• Pomerantz boasted that over a billion people have gone through the process Epic portrays as needlessly onerous to get apps outside the Play Store.
  — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 7 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024