Example Sentences

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They took a toll, onerously so, like an undertow at the ocean shoreline that yanks you down into the muddy sand underfoot, and my debt more than quadrupled.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

The hardest part of raising children who eat well is that it can feel like an onerously long game.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2022

Most onerously, the pill had to be given in person in an approved clinical setting—even though a second drug used to complete the abortion, misoprostol, could be taken at home.

From Scientific American • Mar. 2, 2022

Yet crop insurance rates remained onerously high, the younger Enriquez said, so the farm went without this year.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2021

But the spirit of foreboding lay onerously upon him, and he slept so fitfully that the first gray of dawn found him up and abroad.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville