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.
• Being able to create music has helped me through very difficult times.
  — Amanda Peukert, SPIN, 1 Nov. 2024
• Comparing hurricane seasons over time in terms of costs can be difficult.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
• Mercury may also be difficult to catch without special equipment, as the sun’s glare can blot out the planet.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
• Anybody can make an electric car accelerate with alacrity, that's not difficult.
  — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 16 Mar. 2023
• And the '60s were a very difficult, ugly time in America.
  — Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• Nailing a live performance as a musician versus nailing a difficult scene as an actor, which one gives you the greater high?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2024
• This injury comes at a truly difficult time for the Cowboys, who are set to go through a four-game stretch that could either save, or tank their season.
  — Jesse Reed, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• Leah Abbasi, one of his attorneys, spoke about the difficult upbringing Ryan had.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
• The credits would also be capped to the amount of capital expenditures made by oil producers, which has a difficult-to-determine revenue impact.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Finding an accessible live class in an unfamiliar city will be exceedingly difficult.
  — Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
• Others worry about violence or difficult economic conditions in their homelands.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024