Sentence examples for A devil of a time from inspiring English sources

They expect to have a devil of a time.

Say: "I'm having a devil of a time finding my heirloom jewelry.

Poor kid is going to have a devil of a time in the playground.

As Brown recalls, "I put this very large cat into this very heavy carrier and had a devil of a time hailing cabs on freezing-cold mornings.

Not surprisingly, Ms. Gabarain and her minutemen and -women have had a devil of a time getting anyone to take them seriously.

They put signs out with no organizational name on it and no phone number, so you have a devil of a time finding them".

"I had the devil of a time persuading my uncle, Kalman Liebermann, who was a rabbi himself, that I wasn&apos t cut out for the theological calling," he said.

The Council also admits to difficulties in differentiating legitimate from illegitimate trading and acknowledges that agencies will have a devil of time figuring it all out.

One of the century's greatest philosophers, without whom there would be no Sartre, no Foucault, no Frankfurt School, Martin Heidegger was also a man of great failures and flaws, a Faustus who made a pact with the devil of his time, Adolf Hitler.

The pope has spoken of the devil a number of times as a real entity, not as simply a representation of evil.

The United States is truly the devil of our times, amusing itself with murder.