Example Sentences

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In Kurdistan, you can often determine a path’s strenuousness by the kinds of dung found along it.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022

SoulCycle depends on the charisma of its instructors to spin out the strenuousness, personal attention and quads-of-steel success that make such prices worth it.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2015

It failed less for its experimentation, which was spotty, than for the strenuousness with which he pursued it.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2010

A day in which the most arduous choice has been between "grande" and "tall" does not conduce to literary strenuousness.'

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2010

Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity.

From "1984" by George Orwell