How to Use unrewarding in a Sentence
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Who’s buying the goodie bags for the party?’ Grunt work is stressful and unrewarding.
—Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 6 Apr. 2020
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Step two is to tap into the reward centers of your brain and see how unrewarding worrying is.
—Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2021
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For the British driver, Formula 1 has always been the goal and that comes with the often slow, unrewarding slog up the European ladder system.
—Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2022
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If your social life seems unrewarding, focus on your work.
—Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2021
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The only way to buy specific characters skins now, even old ones, is to grind out very lengthy, very unrewarding challenges for currency.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
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Because this is not Netflix’s first time at this frequently unrewarding rodeo.
—Richard Lawson, HWD, 16 Mar. 2017
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Playing at home has been an unrewarding experience for the Cathedral Catholic High softball team this season.
—Terry Monahan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022
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When the president is the chief and most unpredictable communicator in the White House, the role of communications director has become the most unrewarding job in the White House.
—Dan Balz, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
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The hummingbirds quickly learned to associate one color with a rewarding sweet sip, and the other color with unrewarding plain water.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 18 June 2020
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An unrewarding slog to assemble even a coherent single set build, much less giving players the ability to experiment with a whole bunch of them.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 8 June 2021
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Inflation is at a four-decade high, workers are walking away from unrewarding jobs, and Cold War tensions seem to be warming with each passing cluster bomb into Ukrainian suburbs.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 13 Apr. 2022
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The hummingbirds, which eat flower nectar, quickly learned to associate one color with a rewarding sweet sip, and the other color with unrewarding plain water.
—Virginia Morell, National Geographic, 15 June 2020
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Tracking down the truth both online and offline is increasingly a dim and unrewarding prospect when people have already chosen what to believe in—as in our experience of covering this very story.
—Nikita Joseph, Quartz India, 17 Sep. 2019
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Though saving is unrewarding, capital is still costly for entrepreneurs.
—The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
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But although his life in the Kingdom is professionally unrewarding compared with ward rounds, Xu has found something arguably more precious here: a stable, loving relationship.
—Charlie Campbell / Kunming, Time, 1 June 2018
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Infectious disease control is a noble yet unrewarding job, successes in containing disease outbreaks go unnoticed but mistakes bear the weight of human lives.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 May 2021
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Jackie's face has become pale and her movement has slowed, but her random rummaging through memories continues to be a frantic — and dramatically unrewarding — pursuit.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
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These increasingly capable machines are often taking over tough, repetitive work that would be grueling and unrewarding for people.
—National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
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Recovering yourself after a breakup is exhausting, unrewarding and painful.
—Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
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Frederick Law Olmsted, 30 years old and destined to become the nation’s foremost landscape architect, had already tried his hand at a number of unrewarding occupations: apprentice seaman, merchant, author and farmer.
—Randall Fuller, WSJ, 21 May 2019
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Workers are not accepting disengaging and unrewarding roles for themselves anymore.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
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Such thinking can certainly thwart motivation and result in a joyless, unrewarding existence.
—Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 18 May 2020
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Supporting England is a strange and often unrewarding experience.
—SI.com, 18 June 2018
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Yet what makes Wolff’s account at once undeniably entertaining and lamentably unrewarding is precisely what makes covering this administration so frustrating.
—Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
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Building a sufficiently motivated minority would require tens or hundreds of thousands of activists willing to spend long, demanding, and often unrewarding careers as teachers and administrators.
—Samuel Goldman, The Week, 14 July 2021
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However, these project development processes can be costly and unrewarding if handled by an incompetent developer.
—Nazariy Hazdun, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
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