How to Use grueling in a Sentence

grueling

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• State of play: The All-Star break is the midpoint in the grueling 162-game season and gives teams a chance to take a breather.
  — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 14 July 2024
• End of carousel The return to the pool in May 2023 was slow, gradual and grueling.
  — Dave Sheinin, Washington Post, 15 June 2024
• The Springboks are a grueling enough machine to face when things go right.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2023
• The stars prefer to stay in New York and leave the grueling road schedule to the hungry up-and-comers.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2024
• The Mets are at the end of a long, grueling road trip that has taken them through three cities and three time zones already.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024
• Next The schedule seems grueling, but Yang is quite calm.
  — Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2024
• The second set was even more grueling, at just short of 90 minutes.
  — Jill Martin, CNN, 7 Sep. 2024
• After nine grueling games, the Ravens’ bye week and first week back went mostly as planned.
  — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 19 Nov. 2022
• But a closer listen to his words suggested that the grueling sales process might have been the easy part.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• Who crossed the finish line in triumph — and who didn't finish at all in the grueling two-day final?
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 17 May 2023
• The physical toll and grueling hours failed to deliver the stiffest test.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2023
• As spunky as Swift is at 33, this is a grueling show that will require enormous stamina for the next five months.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
• The days were long and grueling: work started at 10:30 a.m. and ended at midnight, with three breaks of only a half-hour each.
  — Isabelle Qian, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• The panel’s work is part of what Delmore and Graff say is a grueling day of testing for the police recruits.
  — al, 5 Feb. 2023
• Now a grueling war in Ukraine heralds severe tests ahead for the alliance.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2024
• The heat wave will likely make for grueling conditions in some Olympic events this week.
  — Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 30 July 2024
• Traveling through parts of the North Rim can be grueling for novice hikers.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2024
• For your normal touring band to make a living is grueling and hard.
  — Dora Segall, SPIN, 15 Sep. 2022
• After a few years, many Sudanese refugees sought out less grueling work in poultry and pork plants.
  — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• The commute was grueling—a near-four-hour round trip—and his salary was practically the same as the cost of hiring a nanny.
  — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
• Wade thought the workout looked grueling, but lacked purpose.
  — Morgan Campbell, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• The grueling battle has seen both sides suffer heavy losses and much of the city cratered by the constant bombardments.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2023
• The truth is that television news is a grueling job that frequently favors the young.
  — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• Woodlawn put together a grueling drive near the end of the first half, cutting the lead to 12-8 on a 7-yard rushing score by DeWayne Brown.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 20 Oct. 2022
• More than once, after her team broke its postgame huddle, Aaliyah launched into a grueling set of burpees.
  — Michael Errigo, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
• Caleb McLaughlin) storyline stands out as one of the most grueling.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 6 July 2022
• Air travel can be grueling, and amenities that ease the strain of the journey are a welcome sight for weary travelers.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2024
• Milwaukee faces a grueling schedule in March that tips-off with eight straight games against teams with a winning record on March 4th.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten attacked on the second climb, then opened up a four-minute gap on the final push of the day, a grueling 3,163-foot ascent of the Grand Ballon.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 3 Oct. 2024
• The process of improving the outcome, while grueling, is worth the investment of energy and emotion.
  — Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024