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
  • The grueling 1 ½-mile run is the longest of the three high-profile races for 3-year-old thoroughbreds.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 11 June 2022
  • 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
  • As an actor, the most grueling jobs can often be the most fun, too, and I’ve been so spoiled with this experience.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 23 June 2022
  • 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
  • That is three of the meet’s more grueling races in less than three hours done while posting a collection of impressive times and splits.
    — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 3 June 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
  • Exhausted and hungry, the prospectors stumbled into Dawson City in the late summer of 1898 after a grueling journey—and found what must have seemed a mirage.
    — Melanie Haiken, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • And cowboys, working the grueling cattle drives, came to embody values linked to the frontier: self-reliance, strength and independence.
    — Hannah Cutting-Jones, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024

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