Example Sentences

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Thus, he uncorks sentences like this: "we is all of us taking a deserved rest, for we expended a prodigious, a fantastic, a burdensomely amount of laboriousness and energy."

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021

Such frustration fell most burdensomely on 16,000 TWA travelers temporarily stranded in Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both are burdensomely decorated for bravery in action, Gen. Neville having the edge with a Congressional Medal of Honor for the cool way he seized Vera Cruz with the Second Regiment in 1914.

From Time Magazine Archive

The knowledge of America even now possessed in Europe is not burdensomely great.

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford

As Age advances, ails and aches attend, Backs builded broadest burdensomely bend; Cuttingly cruel comes consuming Care, Dealing delusions, drivelry, despair.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)