How to Use Herculean in a Sentence

Herculean

adjective
  • But – even if the ceasefire holds – the scale of the task is Herculean.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Two Herculean tasks face the Panthers now.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
  • To corral all those names in one place must have been quite a Herculean effort.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Your Home While cleaning the entire house seems like a Herculean task, the rewards are worth it.
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Your Home While cleaning the entire house seems like a Herculean task, the rewards are worth it.
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026
  • This object is massive and tiny, giving it Herculean gravity.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Scoring touchdowns in the red zone still looked like a Herculean task at times, even with the more dynamic Dart at the controls.
    — Dan Duggan, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Time management becomes a Herculean task when your office is an airport terminal or the backseat of a taxi.
    — Arpit Jain, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Creating a truly comprehensive sports bundle has proven to be a Herculean task.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In an era of never-ending microtrends—office sirens, tomato girls, and coquettes among them—finding your style can feel like a Herculean task.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2026
  • But even that is going to require a Herculean effort from McCaffrey.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Such a modest reward for such a Herculean ask, especially considering the state of the squad.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The Heat won the next three games, with Wade posting Herculean-like stats to secure the franchise’s first championship.
    — The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Momentum from the previous Herculean shift led to the game-winner by Gauthier.
    — Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Just two years later, at the end of his second stateside season, the Dodgers ace submitted an equally Herculean effort.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Herculean search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean, where the jet is believed to have gone down, have thus far turned up virtually nothing.
    — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
  • This Herculean effort has, in fact, created generational change in Memphis.
    — Brooke Muckerman, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Wiseman has described the mission itself as a Herculean effort, noting that no human has attempted anything like it in more than half a century.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Apr. 2026
  • To achieve this accuracy, there are Herculean efforts on both the vehicle’s side and the offboard side that go entirely unseen to the common customer’s eyes.
    — Steve Tengler, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Florida’s frontcourt poses a Herculean challenge.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Clutch effort is Herculean, and shifting is indelicate but immensely satisfying.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2025
  • In that context, even reaching the play-offs in May would be a Herculean effort for a team who, just three years ago this weekend, were heading to Maidstone United for a league fixture.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • But what must feel like a Herculean task for a young actor navigating sudden fame looked like a breeze for Williams, who walked Fallon around his own set (and onto his knees) like the Canadian owned the whole damn building.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2026
  • But most Germans would associate Herculean feats of beer lifting with the iconic image of the Oktoberfest barmaid carrying an armload of Masskrüge through a crowd of drunken idiots.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside, 6 Nov. 2025
  • In addition to seeking Mandelson’s withdrawal from the House of Lords, Starmer has sought to strip him of his peerage — a somewhat Herculean task that can only be done through an act of parliament.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Public health experts watching the leadership void at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been predicting for a while that finding someone to head the agency would be a Herculean task.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 30 Mar. 2026
  • This is a Herculean task, given that international assessments estimate reconstruction costs in the hundreds of billions of dollars, leaving Ankara little choice but to seek Saudi assistance.
    — Kamran Bokhari, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Now, Georgia’s Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council (PAC) faces the Herculean task of appointing a new prosecutor to take on the case.
    — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2025
  • In the late 1960s, Fowler was charged with the Herculean task of planning and building Disney’s secretive Project X — which would become Florida’s Magic Kingdom.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Those moments have a way of revealing players, and Brunson has won over fans by routinely rising to them—a quality that gives him an edge in the local hierarchy over Aaron Judge, the Herculean Yankees slugger with an unfortunate habit of saving his worst performances for October.
    — Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 Feb. 2026

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