strenuous
IPA: strˈɛnjuʌs
adjective
- Having great vigour or energy; forceful.
- (of a task) Requiring great exertion; very laborious
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Examples of "strenuous" in Sentences
- Hiking in the river is strenuous.
- The training is strenuous for athletes.
- The work is strenuous and very dangerous.
- The duel is too strenuous for Zane and he collapses.
- The most strenuous efforts failed to free the schooner.
- I doubt all the objections are of the strenuous variety.
- He advocates imperialism as an extension of the strenuous life.
- Objections were strenuous from the Chinese, and totally ignored.
- A strenuous downhill hike then ends at the bottom of the waterfall.
- Strenuous effort is devoted to the expression of individual character.
- The hike is strenuous and includes an overnight stay at the LeConte Lodge.
- Your child should rest the joint for 24 hours and may not participate in strenuous activity for one week.
- SOṆĀ, 'Bahuputtikā,' daughter of a clansman of Sāvatthī, foremost of the Sisters who were eminent in strenuous will
- Our government often disagrees in strenuous terms about how this federal government practises federalism and uses its leverage.
- Nicephorus and Leo, triumphed over the Saracens, the hours which the emperor owed to his people were consumed in strenuous idleness.
- Members of the VIP protection unit in Gauteng have threatened to down tools over what they describe as strenuous working conditions and ill-treatment.
- The memo listed the potential side effects of ephedra and stressed that the HHS warning was directed to "athletes and those who engage in strenuous physical activities."
- When it comes to the actual work in strenuous times such as when a battle is going on, or when there is any special call for a lot of fighting in the air, each pilot usually has two jobs a day, and sometimes three.
- Davutoglu spoke at length about what he described as strenuous efforts by Turkey and Brazil to meet the terms of a letter Obama sent to Erdogan and Brazil's president, outlining the terms of the deal to fuel a research reactor.
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