How to Use burdensome in a Sentence

burdensome

adjective
  • The responsibility has become burdensome.
  • Business groups said the requirement was overly burdensome and could take away masks from healthcare workers.
    Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 June 2021
  • 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
  • Some are made from heavier materials, while others can become burdensome when filled.
    Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Guindo says that by slowing the progression of the disease, his company’s drug would prevent more burdensome spending.
    Leah Rosenbaum, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • This premium cotton was grown here until the late 1700’s when pest pressures became too burdensome and reduced the crop yield potential to levels that were not viable at the time.
    Joseph Deacetis, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many Arizona leaders welcomed the news, though White House officials indicated the rule may still face legal challenges, primarily from employers who view the requirements as too burdensome.
    Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2024
  • Though the incidence of a headache after a brain aneurysm is not well-documented, researchers in one study of people with brain aneurysm reported that 40.9% of those studied were affected by burdensome headaches after treatment.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2024

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