Sample Sentences for
arduous
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    She resented the arduous preparation for the journey to Meeting, the heavy leather boots, the knit socks drawn over them, the clumsy little footstove they had to lug all the way, that cooled off long before the sermon was finished and left one to sit with stinging fingers and toes, while the breath of the whole congregation rose like the smoke from so many pipes.  (source)
    arduous = difficult - requiring much energy and effort
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    We did not consider going to British-controlled Palestine as the life there would be too arduous for my parents.  (source)
    arduous = difficult
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    Others I intuitively judged to lack the necessary temperament for the arduous task at hand.  (source)
    arduous = difficult - requiring much energy and effort
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    It was a brief resting period between the exacting and arduous planting season and the equally exacting but light-hearted month of harvests.  (source)
    arduous = difficult
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    Dworakowski had destroyed the structure of self-deception I had so arduously maintained.†  (source)
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    Therefore, this was how we were, in the office, the stout doctor explaining his injection for our lay understanding, fat-faced, dry, unarduous, heavy of breath, his arms hairy, the office stinking of cigars and of his sedentary career in old black leather.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unarduous means not and reverses the meaning of arduous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The Japanese government made contracts with private companies to send enlisted POWs to factories, mines, docks, and railways, where the men were forced into exceptionally arduous war-production or war-transport labor.  (source)
    arduous = difficult - requiring hard labor
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    But now, he turned against the stream in which he had drifted so short a while before, and began swimming arduously back against the current.†  (source)
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    Drained by the arduous interrogation, blinded by exhaustion and her abaya, Natalie could think of no reason to doubt the old preacher's prophecy.  (source)
    arduous = difficult or exhausting
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    When she closed the door he arduously sat up and swung his legs over the edge of the bed.†  (source)
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    The day had been long and arduous, and he slept soundly and comfortably, though he growled and barked and wrestled with bad dreams.  (source)
    arduous = difficult
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    And there's one other thing: Zayd likes the way Cedric reserves friendship until it is arduously won.†  (source)
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    Physically it is extraordinarily arduous, and morally it is killing.  (source)
    arduous = difficult - requiring much energy and effort
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