How to Use unrewarding in a Sentence

unrewarding

adjective

• Who’s buying the goodie bags for the party?’ Grunt work is stressful and unrewarding.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 6 Apr. 2020
• Step two is to tap into the reward centers of your brain and see how unrewarding worrying is.
  — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2021
• Of course, that dissonance is part of the novel’s parody, too, and maybe why White Noise feels so confounding—though not unrewarding—to watch.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2022
• 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
• If your social life seems unrewarding, focus on your work.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Because this is not Netflix’s first time at this frequently unrewarding rodeo.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 16 Mar. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The roles other than Fedora and Loris are thoroughly unrewarding.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Though saving is unrewarding, capital is still costly for entrepreneurs.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• These increasingly capable machines are often taking over tough, repetitive work that would be grueling and unrewarding for people.
  — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
• Recovering yourself after a breakup is exhausting, unrewarding and painful.
  — Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Workers are not accepting disengaging and unrewarding roles for themselves anymore.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
• Such thinking can certainly thwart motivation and result in a joyless, unrewarding existence.
  — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 18 May 2020
• Supporting England is a strange and often unrewarding experience.
  — SI.com, 18 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• However, these project development processes can be costly and unrewarding if handled by an incompetent developer.
  — Nazariy Hazdun, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024