Sentence examples for could be painstaking from inspiring English sources

But in a sidelong reference to recent travails, Ms. Sadik-Khan conceded that redesigning streets could be "painstaking work".

The process will be painstaking, similar to denazification in postwar Germany, experts say, and could require years of American military occupation.

Some calls can be painstaking.

Negotiating with the holdouts will be painstaking.

"The work to deal with this threat will be painstaking.

The task of identifying natural reservoir hosts can be painstaking.

"Diplomacy is painstaking work.

But progress is painstaking.

The process was painstaking.

It is painstaking work.

Because this is painstaking.