Sample Sentences for
onerous
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    While other states have caps of more than a million dollars, and many have no cap at all, several states impose onerous eligibility requirements.  (source)
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    She would never know how deeply he had longed to free himself all these years, how he had stayed with her only because he knew she would be lost otherwise, how onerous it had been to go on and on, day after day, setting right what he had done wrong.  (source)
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    Ron and Hermione's prefect duties also became more and more onerous as Christmas approached.  (source)
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    And if what you come up with is stupidly onerous we're going to ignore it.  (source)
    onerous = difficult
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    'Twas ostensibly ominous in the overview To be 'orribly and onerously overrun.†  (source)
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    The milk of the poppy, for when the pain grows too onerous.†  (source)
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    And 'orribly and onerously overrun?†  (source)
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    But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative climes, it actually flees to higher planes.†  (source)
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    Proceed at haste and speed and celerity, without delay, diversion or divagation to Dunkirk for the purposes of immediate evacuation on account of being 'orribly and onerously overrun from all directions.†  (source)
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    She worked better and faster than the slave woman who had taken over much of old Mary's sewing—and if she had an enemy on the plantation, it was that woman, Liza, who was now in danger of being sent to more onerous work.†  (source)
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    Scarlett wondered how he managed so onerous a job in his condition but asked no questions, realizing wryly that almost anything was possible when necessity drove.†  (source)
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    As for Sir Percy himself, he was universally voted to be totally unqualified for the onerous post he had taken upon himself.†  (source)
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    Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil.†  (source)
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