DIFFICULTY in a Sentence

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292 example sentences for DIFFICULTY, such as:

1. With some difficulty Muriel spelt it out.
2. Bad planning will lead to difficulty later.
3. We're having difficulty recruiting enough qualified staff.
4. The patient was perceived to have difficulty in breathing.
5. The tests in this book are arranged in order of difficulty.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIFFICULTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
difficulty
 n.  an effort that is inconvenient
 n.  a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  The first difficulty which we had to contend with was the finding of this American's antecedents.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3  He had hardly started, however, before he realized the difficulty which faced him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
4  Many a man, however vindictive, would have abandoned all thought of revenge in the face of such a difficulty, but Jefferson Hope never faltered for a moment.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
5  But the pigs were so clever that they could think of a way round every difficulty.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
6  With some difficulty Muriel spelt it out.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
7  In any case he had no difficulty in proving to the other animals that they were NOT in reality short of food, whatever the appearances might be.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
8  Squealer was so fat that he could with difficulty see out of his eyes.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
9  Isa supplied the first words that came into her head by way of helping her husband out of his difficulty.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
10  I should have no power of keeping you against his wish, and he would have no difficulty, at any time, in finding Mr. Thomas Gradgrind of Coketown.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
11  This was no longer matter of so much difficulty as formerly.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  She locked the door behind her, and Rebecca might hear her curse every step for its steepness, as slowly and with difficulty she descended the turret-stair.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Cedric, with some difficulty, compelled himself to make obeisance to the haughty Baron, who returned his courtesy with a slight inclination of the head.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  Meantime the prisoners found no difficulty in making their escape into the anteroom, and from thence into the court of the castle, which was now the last scene of contest.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
15  He said I ought to have done it before; that may be a difficulty.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
Example Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
16  Bad planning will lead to difficulty later.
17  The committee member had difficulty in fighting his suggestion through.
18  The government is having difficulty finding a safe depository for nuclear waste.
19  A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
20  The tests in this book are arranged in order of difficulty.
21  Many men still have difficulty accepting a woman as a business partner.
22  The patient was perceived to have difficulty in breathing.
23  The police had difficulty in restraining the crowd from rushing on to the pitch.
24  We've run into difficulties / difficulty with the new project.
25  The dimensions of the difficulty for the hydraulic project have only recently been recognized.
26  Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
27  We're having difficulty recruiting enough qualified staff.
28  The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
29  People whose jobs are comparable in difficulty should receive similar pay.
30  With infinite difficulty, for he was stubborn as a stone, I persuaded him to make an exchange in favor of a sober black satin and pearl-grey silk.