How to Use difficult in a Sentence

difficult

adjective

• Some difficult days lie ahead of us.
• It's more difficult than it sounds.
• I had to make a very difficult decision.
• We were asked lots of difficult questions.
• I found myself in a difficult position.
• These changes will make life difficult for everyone involved.
• We'll be hiking over difficult terrain.
• You’ve clearly been trained to parry difficult questions with a both-sides dodge.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
• For law enforcement, the good news is that picking up the trail isn’t always difficult.
  — James Verini, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Dealing with slugs that cause unsightly holes in hosta leaves can be difficult in hosta care.
  — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Feb. 2023
• For startups, jumping from one cloud provider to another is difficult.
  — Bysteve Mollman, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2023
• The harder the basket is to reach the more difficult the question inside the basket will be for their opponent.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Feb. 2023
• Add Fragrance That earthy pine scent is one aspect of a real tree that is difficult to part with when making the switch to faux.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Dec. 2024
• That can be difficult for someone to get in general, especially for someone who’s never sung before.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
• Without a ship’s name, definitively attaching an owner’s name to the Palmwood items will be difficult, Ewing said.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
• Whales are also quite literally a slippery population to measure, and the effect of whale waste in particular is difficult to pin down.
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• Messing with the chemistry of a team with a 39-7-5 record would be difficult, but would Sweeney sacrifice a roster player to add another prime-aged pillar?
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
• Yemen is the most difficult place in the world to be a child.
  — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• To have to turn around and push a plunger is difficult.
  — Melissa Chan, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
• What’s been the most difficult glacier to cross so far?
  — National Geographic, 3 July 2019
• First, the job is many things, but difficult is not one of them.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2023
• But staying on the good side of the rules shouldn’t be difficult.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• The pass was high and inside and would have been a difficult catch.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2021
• Your question is difficult due to the lack of specifics.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2020
• The work will be difficult and take time, but it must be done.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 20 June 2018
• This love is what makes weeks like the last one so difficult.
  — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 3 Dec. 2018
• Making things even more difficult was the fact the course was on fire.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
• Your child has to feel safe to come to you with difficult matters.
  — Irina Gonzalez, Parents, 23 Oct. 2023
• Finding the best board games for teens doesn't have to be difficult.
  — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Teen Vogue, 27 Mar. 2020
• Those things are easy to say but much more difficult to do.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 2 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024