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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are gruelling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe tasks, activities, or experiences that are extremely demanding or exhausting.
Example: "The training sessions are gruelling, pushing the athletes to their limits every day."
Alternatives: "are exhausting" or "are taxing".
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are gruelling
adjective
So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
Exact(7)
Even in the city electorate visits are gruelling.
But the treatment sessions, which last as long as twelve hours at a time, are gruelling.
No one is denying that conditions in South Sudan are gruelling.
It's exhausting just thinking about such people but the doc is as inspiring as the races are gruelling.
The early scenes are gruelling and seem predictable thriller fare until the story twists so dramatically that it leaves the reader breathless.
Intimacy and La Vie de Jésus are no less alive to the way in which it's possible to read a character's life through their sexual behaviour, but they are gruelling experiences: Chéreau and Dumont betray no interest in producing titters from the back row.
Similar(53)
The training was gruelling.
Interviewing Campbell is gruelling.
Scrutiny can be gruelling.
The work was gruelling.
Factory conditions can be gruelling.
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