Sentence examples for onerous chore from inspiring English sources

Business specialists say the recession has created a new, onerous chore for corporate executives: coping with more intrusive, insistent pleas for work than ever before.

The date of the vote, Jan . 7 would allow Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco to approve the new rates a day before leaving office, sparing his successor, James E. McGreevey, the politically onerous chore of giving the increases his blessing.

You may have hated red tape and the onerous chore of reporting to someone and keeping a record of everything, but now if you aren't on top of things, you screw yourself.

While some people love grocery shopping (I do and love seeing the new products), others see it as an onerous chore.

It's nice that the two photogenic leads are treating sex like a pleasurable activity rather than an onerous chore in this second entry, but overall, the film plays like an un-asked-for collaboration between the Hallmark and Playboy Channels.

BIKE RACK One of the more onerous chores associated with summer driving is the seemingly incessant loading and unloading of the family vehicle.

So why is work -- those onerous chores and tasks of my youth -- now so appealing, so charming, so necessary?

In some respects, the Bush administration looked on the G-8 -- both the foreign ministers' meeting and the grander event in Genoa -- as one more diplomatic chore, a more onerous task than a useful thrashing-out of burning economic issues, the original agenda nearly three decades ago when the meetings began with a smaller group.

It seems an onerous task.

This onerous task remains with the users.

I promised my daughter, Hattie, who is 13, that she could skip some onerous household chores if she would, with the ice cream maker she got for Christmas, prepare me a batch of peanut butter and pickle ice cream.