How to Use grueling in a Sentence

grueling

adjective
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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
  • And that first tour was tough, very grueling – a lot of my first tours were and my solo tours are still very, very tough.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 12 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Hell Week comes at the end of the initial three weeks of the program and is so grueling that more than half of the candidates do not make it through.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 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
  • But as events unfold, a grueling game of cat and mouse reveals that Suzy has been holding all the cards all along.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The physical toll and grueling hours failed to deliver the stiffest test.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2023
  • One wrong move and the Clippers were staring their third loss in a row in the face, directly ahead of a grueling, eight-game trip.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • 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 program is so grueling that at least 50% to 60% don't make it through Hell Week, when candidates are pushed to the limit.
    — CBS News, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The program is so grueling that at least 50% to 60% don’t make it through Hell Week, when candidates are pushed to the limit.
    — chicagotribune.com, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The Cavs still have a chance to finish a grueling road trip with a winning record in Charlotte Monday night.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The news marked the end of her life as Barbie the Model (and a grueling two-month audition process) and the start of her acting career.
    — Allure, 17 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Jessie Diggins is eyeing a third Tour de Ski title in the sport’s most grueling test.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Now a grueling war in Ukraine heralds severe tests ahead for the alliance.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2024
  • As the Bulls exit a grueling nine-game stretch in two weeks, a spotlight has been focused on the team’s need to hone its half-court offense.
    — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The heat wave will likely make for grueling conditions in some Olympic events this week.
    — Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 30 July 2024
  • Training camp under Reid is one of the league’s most grueling for players.
    — Nate Taylor, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 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

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