BURDENSOME in a Sentence

Learn BURDENSOME from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For BURDENSOME, below is one of 7 sentences:
The toil, like all farm toil, is monotonous, and here there are little machinery and few tools to relieve its burdensome drudgery.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of BURDENSOME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
burdensome
 a.  not easily borne; wearing; causing uneasiness or fatigue
Classic Sentence:
1  Narrow and burdensome and useless to anyone as his life now seemed to him, Prince Andrew on the eve of battle felt agitated and irritable as he had done seven years before at Austerlitz.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXIV
2  The prisoners were more burdensome to the escort than even the cavalry saddles or Junot's baggage.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XII
3  It was not poverty which had broken her spirit; it was not a want of courage which rendered her poverty burdensome.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 106. Dividing the Proceeds.
4  The innocent festivities over the election, and this gloomy, burdensome love to which he had to return struck Vronsky by their contrast.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 31
5  The toil, like all farm toil, is monotonous, and here there are little machinery and few tools to relieve its burdensome drudgery.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence:
1  The burdensome task of preparing the income tax return was assigned to him.
2  These charges are particularly burdensome for poor parents.