How to Use difficulty in a Sentence

difficulty

noun

• She underestimated the difficulty of saving so much money.
• Then the difficulty picking up the ball out of the pitcher’s hand at the plate.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
• In this case, the accolade serves to highlight the difficulty of his work.
  — Carita Rizzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
• The difficulty for Stanton, though, was coming up with a new arc for Woody.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 10 Aug. 2024
• The game has hoops and patterns across a range of difficulties, but all are an adorable and peaceful way to unwind with your Switch.
  — Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
• But the fact that the money cannot be publicly traced highlights the difficulty of putting such assertions to the test.
  — Brian Slodysko, ajc, 4 Apr. 2023
• The world’s highest peaks are deeply revered around the world, likely due to the immense difficulty of reaching them.
  — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
• Neri and Mackentley enjoy their work, despite the difficulty of traversing the spring snow and the lack of nights off.
  — Ryan Garza, Freep.com, 8 May 2023
• Still, Greenfield hasn’t been shy about the difficulty of raising two kids.
  — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 17 May 2024
• Maps from the area’s visitors bureau offer a sense of the difficulty of each route.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2023
• Here’s this doe-eyed farm boy who doesn’t really know what’s going on, and is then faced with the first difficulty of the Empire.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2024
• There are way more extreme versions of PCOS that women have a lot of difficulty with.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
• Most students learn with them while in culinary school, but home cooks tend to stay clear due to the higher price tag and level of difficulty.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 June 2023
• There have been setbacks and difficulties, but that’s life.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2024
• The joy is that being able to metabolize the reality of the difficulty of the world.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
• To embrace her complexity and the tragedy and the difficulty as much as the fun, thrilling, adventures that took place.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 2 May 2024
• Since then it has been revealed that Barbie and Ken have been placed in the real world and forced to wrestle with the difficulties of no longer being just dolls.
  — Charna Flam, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
• Despite all the horrors and difficulties, Yana set a big goal for herself.
  — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2024
• The Husbands is — in part — about the difficulty of making decisions, about feeling frozen in the face of too many options.
  — Holly Gramazio, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2024
• She’s also since spoken out about the difficulty of dating in the public eye.
  — Vulture, 26 Mar. 2023
• And the difficulty with it is, there's a small latency in achieving peak brake pressure.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 3 July 2024
• The bizarreness of how last season played out adds a few degrees of difficulty to predicting what to expect this year.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• Despite the difficulties, Clark still sees her work as a mission, not just for her clients but for her own family.
  — Mya Frazier, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• The size, weather and terrain of the area have factored into the difficulty of suppressing the fire, Tracy added.
  — Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
• Well, the difficulty in this area is that so much of this is novel territory.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• Still, Klein couldn’t help but notice that even Biden has had difficulty pulling back on a college-heavy agenda.
  — Rick Wartzman, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
• Timberlake rates Saturday’s dunk a bit ahead of his slam at OSU on the degree of difficulty scale.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2024
• There’s any number of them — the emotional difficulties of navigating the ups and downs of love.
  — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2024
• Symptoms can vary from mild to severe and include vomiting, wheezing, stomach problems, swelling of the tongue and lips, hives, difficulty breathing, and dizziness.
  — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
• Severe cases can result in difficulty breathing, wheezing, and signs of hypoxia (low oxygen in the tissues).
  — Kashif J. Piracha, Verywell Health, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024