How to Use burdensome in a Sentence

burdensome

adjective

• The responsibility has become burdensome.
• States that have enabled the traffic recordings have found it not as burdensome as some originally feared.
  — Megan O'Matz, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• To keep the government running and people employed, Palau has had to take out burdensome loans.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
• The authors found enforcement was rare, costly, and burdensome.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2021
• But beefing up such investigations is bound to further alienate law enforcement groups that see them as too costly and burdensome.
  — Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
• Musk’s behavior, say the former employees, acted as cover for other platforms that saw trust and safety work as a burdensome cost.
  — Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
• Travel can be burdensome during winter months, and especially so this year with all of the additional protocols in place.
  — Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2020
• Any delay in cutting rates will also postpone relief for Americans who want home mortgages, auto loans and credit card debt to be less burdensome.
  — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 29 Nov. 2024
• Checking that information became burdensome in recent weeks as the number of antigen tests coming in doubled to more than 700 per day.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
• Kelley and other council members contended that some of the delivery services had been charging a burdensome 30%.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 30 Dec. 2020
• Casually working the conversation around to the topic of anonymous gifts arriving in the mail is burdensome, but possible.
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
• The building and agricultural industries have long complained the state’s wetlands permitting program is burdensome.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Feb. 2021
• The lower the price of the ticket, however, the more burdensome the fees can seem.
  — Emma Fox, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• By this stage of your life, the family home might be too large and burdensome.
  — Terry Savage, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2022
• Still, the thought of moving anywhere new felt heavy and burdensome.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 18 June 2022
• The out-of-pocket costs can be burdensome for patients as well, likely putting it out of reach for many.
  — Adam Gaffney, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
• As burdensome as the grief were the world’s new expectations.
  — David Greenberg, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• Americans have spent some of it, saved a lot of it and used large portions to pay down burdensome debt.
  — Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2021
• Riders said there is no good reason the process is so burdensome.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2021
• The goal for each stage is to get the key to the door, but that can be burdensome because the item disappears after 15 seconds if Mario puts it down.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
• Chapter 1: The First Lieutenant Each man in the squadron carried, along with a sea chest, his own burdensome story.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• As a result, the process became too burdensome for those who were most distressed.
  — Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• And that aspect of it was kind of burdensome and dysfunctional—the scholar side of it.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 28 June 2022
• His scars, though not physical, may be the most burdensome.
  — USA Today, 16 Oct. 2021
• And suddenly they’re being made to feel like this rather burdensome person who has to have a cup of tea.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
• Credit card rates have grown more burdensome, and so have auto loans.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
• But at that time the rules for removing living trees were more burdensome.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2021
• That fact defeats the purpose of having a more costly and burdensome S-Corp.
  — Brian Thompson, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• The goal is to make funding less burdensome to local taxpayers, but the work has just begun.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2021
• Drucker said that staying on medications for the rest of one’s life may be more burdensome than a one-and-done surgery.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 12 June 2023

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024