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How to use strenuous in a sentence

20 example sentences · adjective

Strenuous means having great vigour or energy; forceful. Example: “After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath.”

Examples of strenuous by meaning

adjectiveRequiring great exertion; very laborious.

  • We can achieve this god‐likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato”, in Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92, page...
  • Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.2017 February 17, Dana Santas, “Recovering from surgery or stress? Yoga can help”, in CNN

More sentences with strenuous

  • After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath.From the entry soak
  • You drive nails into wood with any hammer; it's not as strenuous as driving a tunnel through the rock.From the entry drive
  • (from strenuous labour) Whew! That box weighs a ton!From the entry whew
  • “Sit with her all night if we have to,” Syd affirms with strenuous rectitude.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry rectitude
  • Horseflesh and humanflesh alike need to be warmed up before strenuous activity.1984, Steven Adcock, “[Breathing and Form, Warm-up, and Freebody Exercises] Warm-up”, in Steve Adcock’s Partner Workout: A Two-Person…. From the entry racehorse
  • A Hopi girl, fully clothed and supported by her godaunt, undergoes a similar but less strenuous treatment.1969, Laura Thompson, The Secret of Culture: Nine Community Studies. From the entry godaunt
  • The medieval knight had to be magnanimous, ingenious, largifluous, egregious, strenuous—a real Miles dei.1957, August Closs, Medusa’s Mirror: Studies in German Literature, London: The Cresset Press, page 47. From the entry largifluous
  • So context me no contexts, analyse me no analyses, suspend your partially informed diagnoses; leave off your strenuous efforts at even-handedness.2023 October 14, Simon Schama, “Let us be, to grieve, rage, weep; say the mourners’ kaddish”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times…. From the entry kaddish
  • It’s not as strenuous as working here in the fields.2008 January 30, Ren Riqing, quotee, “Urban Migrants Stranded in China”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2023. From the entry Wuxi
  • On weekends and vacations, San Bernardinans could choose between desert relaxation or the more strenuous pleasures of the San Bernardino Mountains.1944, California. State Reconstruction, Reemployment Commission, Pamphlet .... From the entry San Bernardinan
  • A month or so of winter sport seemed a desirable pick-me-up after the strenuous work and crowning discomfiture of the election.1919, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Sheep”, in R[othay] R[eynolds], editor, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers. […], London…. From the entry pick-me-up
  • Most of the men at these things did nothing more strenuous than click a mouse, and their hands were smoother than mine.2021, Michelle McCraw, Trip Me Up. An Opposites-Attract Road-Trip Romance, Lazy Dog Books, →ISBN, page unnamed. From the entry sportsballer
  • If only there had turned out to be more naming and less strenuous diplomacy involved in the job, it would have been perfect.2007, John Klima, Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories, →ISBN, page 370. From the entry euonymy
  • Most of the eight Siberian parishes were very extensive and the work of a Lutheran pastor in those parts was exacting and strenuous.1961, Walter Kolarz, “Western Protestantism I (Lutheranism, Calvinists, Mennonites)”, in Religion in the Soviet Union, London: Macmillan &…. From the entry Kharbin
  • In spite of a heavily charged heredity this man remained free of psychopathy and fear after twelve years of the most strenuous life.1925 January, Tom A. Williams, “The Mechanism of the Psychoneuroses”, in The American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 81, number 3, →DOI…. From the entry pantaphobia
  • A few of them were aged fishermen who, no longer having strength for the strenuous life at sea, had returned to their boyhood's job, and did it well.1970, Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin, Cornwall and its people, page 110. From the entry yawler
  • The archking which we have to fight is ignorance, and until knowledge and conviction areonce gained, the work of all of us will meet with strenuous opposition.1900, Ohio Sanitary Bulletin, Volume 4, Office of the State Board of Health, page 74. From the entry archking
  • Lawn lollers as well as the strenuous tennis crowd react favorably to the clink of ice against glass, especially when they don't have to bestir themselves in the attainment thereof.1939, Mademoiselle, volume 9, page 46. From the entry chillth

Meaning of strenuous

  1. adjective Having great vigour or energy; forceful.
  2. adjective Requiring great exertion; very laborious.

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Questions about strenuous in a sentence

How do you use strenuous in a sentence?
Strenuous is used as an adjective. For example: “After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath.”
What is a short sentence with strenuous?
“(from strenuous labour) Whew! That box weighs a ton!”
What does strenuous mean?
Strenuous means having great vigour or energy; forceful.

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