Sample Sentences for
strenuous
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    His legs were sore from remaining rigid for so long. Standing still was more strenuous than walking.  (source)
    strenuous = difficult
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    As she raised her hand and swore that the evidence she gave would be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help her God, she seemed somehow fragile-looking, but when she sat facing us in the witness chair she became what she was, a thick-bodied girl accustomed to strenuous labor.  (source)
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    During spring and summer—the most strenuous periods of foraging—a worker bee, as a rule, does not live more than four or five weeks.  (source)
    strenuous = physically demanding
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    Everybody was in it, so I knew it was going to be a strenuous bore.  (source)
    strenuous = difficult
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    Strenuously.†  (source)
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    An overpowering smell of sweat, a sort of unconscious testimony to the strenuousness of his life, followed him about wherever he went, and even remained behind him after he had gone.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    that can only be done by suffering, by strenuous, uninterrupted labour.  (source)
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    I spoke; I told them to retire and consider of what had been said, that I would not lead them farther north if they strenuously desired the contrary, but that I hoped that, with reflection, their courage would return.†  (source)
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    Its leisurely tempo feels mismatched to the strenuousness of the exercise, but Shirakawa is subtly controlling his movements in time with the music.†  (source)
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    This turns out to be a more strenuous proposition than I had anticipated.†  (source)
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    Aye, no doubt; but that is what a governess will prevent, and if I had known your mother, I should have advised her most strenuously to engage one.†  (source)
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    Who knew, perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity.†  (source)
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    His most popular book was about sex and strenuous athletics for men over sixty-five.†  (source)
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