Sentence examples for gruelling operations from inspiring English sources

Thus many children are put through gruelling operations before succumbing to death.

She was running the bookstore, and trying to re-start her life after a serious foot injury and the two gruelling operations it required had ended her ballet career.

Meanwhile, Giles was being put through one gruelling operation after another – sometimes, there wasn't even time to bring him round from the anaesthetic before he was taken back into theatre.

Now, although it's the fastest-growing cancer in the western world, there's a better chance than ever that the tumour can be removed in a gruelling operation - if the patient is suitable.

It was exactly five years and six months after my initial diagnosis of breast cancer and it had been a gruelling journey requiring nine operations, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and years of Tamoxifen.

The rehearsal process has been gruelling.

Interviewing Campbell is gruelling.

The training was gruelling.

Scrutiny can be gruelling.

The work was gruelling.

Factory conditions can be gruelling.