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.
• 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
• The prize is a year-long contract to star in the show on the West End, which is a huge undertaking for the winners and a big risk for you.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
• And that is a large undertaking that is why the Space Force was established.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
• Perhaps Williams will have a car chase through the streets of San Francisco to score for his next undertaking.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2023
• Few knew how thorny such undertakings could be than Smothers, who died this week at age 88.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2023
• This year’s best movies are bold undertakings both onscreen and off.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• But this will be a big and demanding undertaking at the school level.
  — Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2023
• Yet the roadblocks to get there have been a massive undertaking to overcome.
  — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• Rolls-Royce claims that sourcing wood that perfectly paired with the leather was a six-month undertaking.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2023
• Getting a hold on pop music in 2022 was a fun undertaking, even if doing so was a bit like trying to throw one’s arms around the world.
  — Maura Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• Here's the scale of the undertaking, with some comparisons, and a look at one technology.
  — Benoît Morenne, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2022
• The special heightens the risk involved in such an undertaking.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2022
• This is not a small undertaking as these standards would need to be event specific.
  — Ashley Ward, STAT, 16 Aug. 2023
• But Homendy has warned that the investigation will be a huge undertaking and could take one to two years.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
• The most dangerous undertaking of his life, the choices Uric makes along the way will change his life forever — along with the fate of his entire nation.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
• Getting critics to watch and review a movie about Burt Reynolds was a massive undertaking.
  — Christopher Null, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
• According to many young people, the herculean four-year undertaking is no longer worth the trouble.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2023
• Depending on the size of your property and the number of trees around it, cleaning all those leaves up can be a massive undertaking.
  — Tony Carrick, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2023
• That was largely a private undertaking—to each their own.
  — Time, 10 Jan. 2023
• Talk about your hopes for Eldorado Ballroom and how studying the arts in Houston shaped your work and this undertaking.
  — Vulture, 17 Feb. 2023
• Shopping for a new or used car over the last few years has become a frustrating and expensive undertaking.
  — Ronald Montoya, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2023
• Here Of course, this isn’t meant to denigrate the immense undertaking that is bringing a period piece to life through costume.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
• The search that resulted in the hiring of Acta was a nationwide undertaking.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2023
• Built on three separate sound stages, the backlot (John Brown’s yard in Clydeside), and a real ship, bringing the Britannia to life in the show was a massive undertaking.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 9 Nov. 2022
• Filming the movie was a huge, seven-month-long undertaking that involved hours in a water tank (for Winslet, without a wetsuit, which led to a case of pneumonia).
  — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
• Those facts also make this game a daunting undertaking for FC Cincinnati.
  — The Enquirer, 30 Apr. 2023
• Scaling to two or more locations is a large undertaking.
  — Brandi Watterson, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The question now is whether their effort will result in a successful undertaking.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 27 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024