How to Use grueling in a Sentence

grueling

adjective
  • The most grueling stage is yet to come.
    — Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2026
  • But these days his most grueling endurance event isn’t a swim-bike-run.
    — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The overall race for the seat is likely to be a grueling marathon.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The first season was a grueling shoot.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 26 May 2026
  • The answers are the result of a grueling process that can take up to three months.
    — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The last set was grueling, and both of us were exhausted.
    — Rick Cantu, Austin American Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That was a grueling battle, and every game was tight.
    — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
  • Since then, her days have followed a grueling but structured rhythm.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
  • His approach comes at a time when landing a job has never felt more grueling.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • And the travel can be a little grueling.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The Springboks are a grueling enough machine to face when things go right.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Those new staffers quickly saw the grueling hours and how tired their coworkers were all the time.
    — Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Adding to that desire is that the chamber is hitting the tail end of a grueling six-month stretch.
    — Al Weaver, The Hill, 21 July 2025
  • The second set was even more grueling, at just short of 90 minutes.
    — Jill Martin, CNN, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Today’s field faces a race even more grueling than in Gordon’s day.
    — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2025
  • After nine grueling games, the Ravens’ bye week and first week back went mostly as planned.
    — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 19 Nov. 2022
  • If matters couldn’t get any more grueling, the team meets league leader Barcelona next.
    — Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Alcaraz also had to come through a grueling five-setter.
    — John Pye, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • At first, giving up soda was grueling.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The result is a revealing look at the grueling process of getting a gig.
    — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
  • And for some who do make it to onboarding, the job turns out to be more grueling than expected.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • A week of life and going through something grueling isn’t all that bad in retrospect.
    — Abigail Wise, Outside, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The trick to looking pulled together even on the most grueling travel day?
    — Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Starting and closing with both bigs presents a grueling workload for the two centers.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2026
  • For now, Benyamin will spend some time relaxing after a grueling five years of work.
    — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026
  • 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 backlash to Bowyer-Chapman as a judge was swift and grueling.
    — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Saturday night, the Knicks faced their first test in what promises to be a grueling stretch of games.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025

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