Sentence examples for like a strenuous from inspiring English sources
When we fight an urge, it feels like a strenuous effort, as if there were a homunculus in the head that physically impinged on a persistent antagonist.
For new arrivals, adjusting to the neighborhood can be like a strenuous stair climb: It requires a little work and some faith, maybe, but the payoff can be extraordinary, residents say.
Or, take on the responsibility of playing with your friends' puppies--nothing like a strenuous game of fetch!
Each day I've been making educated guesses about what panels to attend at SXSWi, like a strenuous game of tic-tac-toe.
Scott Small at Columbia, for instance, likes nothing better than a strenuous game of tennis.
Ms. Thompson, writer of both "Nanny McPhee" (2005) and this sequel, has jumped ahead from the vaguely Victorian setting of the original (which matched the Christianna Brand children's books on which the McPhee character is based) to a bucolic World War II home front in which the Blitz looks like a particularly strenuous summer on the farm.
Don't start off with a strenuous activity like running or a sport right off the bat, because these activities can use up valuable energy that your body could better use fighting off the virus.
Like all dog-families, we're fighting a strenuous, losing battle to keep her from begging at the table.
It manifests as an abrupt loss of voice after a strenuous vocal activity -- like singing or yelling -- and should be treated right away by a doctor, according to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Like other founders, Washington was an ambitious, insecure provincial, committed to a strenuous regimen of self-improvement.
A strenuous rehabilitation.
