How to Use burdensome in a Sentence

burdensome

adjective

• The responsibility has become burdensome.
• The lower the price of the ticket, however, the more burdensome the fees can seem.
  — Emma Fox, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• By this stage of your life, the family home might be too large and burdensome.
  — Terry Savage, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2022
• Still, the thought of moving anywhere new felt heavy and burdensome.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 18 June 2022
• The out-of-pocket costs can be burdensome for patients as well, likely putting it out of reach for many.
  — Adam Gaffney, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
• As burdensome as the grief were the world’s new expectations.
  — David Greenberg, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• Americans have spent some of it, saved a lot of it and used large portions to pay down burdensome debt.
  — Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2021
• Riders said there is no good reason the process is so burdensome.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2021
• The goal for each stage is to get the key to the door, but that can be burdensome because the item disappears after 15 seconds if Mario puts it down.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
• Chapter 1: The First Lieutenant Each man in the squadron carried, along with a sea chest, his own burdensome story.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• As a result, the process became too burdensome for those who were most distressed.
  — Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• And that aspect of it was kind of burdensome and dysfunctional—the scholar side of it.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 28 June 2022
• His scars, though not physical, may be the most burdensome.
  — USA Today, 16 Oct. 2021
• And suddenly they’re being made to feel like this rather burdensome person who has to have a cup of tea.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
• Credit card rates have grown more burdensome, and so have auto loans.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
• But at that time the rules for removing living trees were more burdensome.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2021
• That fact defeats the purpose of having a more costly and burdensome S-Corp.
  — Brian Thompson, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• The goal is to make funding less burdensome to local taxpayers, but the work has just begun.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2021
• Drucker said that staying on medications for the rest of one’s life may be more burdensome than a one-and-done surgery.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 12 June 2023
• And paying for tests is burdensome for the many people on Medicare who have modest means.
  — Amy Goldstein and Christopher Rowland, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2022
• Some people fear that a VMT fee would be more burdensome for low-income households.
  — Peter R. Orszag Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune, 23 June 2021
• The changes are in line with the government's promise to make restrictions less burdensome while still trying to contain the virus.
  — Huizhong Wu, ajc, 8 Dec. 2022
• The result will be more burdensome loan costs for both consumers and businesses.
  — Cora Lewis, Fortune, 3 May 2023
• In large part because of the burdensome debt levied by France in exchange for its freedom, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• With sky-high home prices and burdensome mortgage rates weighing on buyers, the housing market is locked in a deep freeze.
  — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
• Evers in 2019 refused to release a days' worth of his emails, with his lawyers saying such a request was too burdensome.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2021
• Those higher rates have already sent home sales tumbling, made the prospect of buying a new car more burdensome, and pushed credit card rates up.
  — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
• Higher rates have already sent home sales tumbling, made the prospect of buying a new car more burdensome and pushed credit card rates up.
  — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2022
• The big picture: For months, industry groups have warned the proposal would lead to burdensome restrictions, but actual details haven't been made public until now.
  — Kyle Stokes, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
• Offshore wind is under development, but the government is criticized for imposing burdensome requirements to use Taiwanese products and workers that the country is not well equipped to meet.
  — Isabel Hilton, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024