Sentence examples for painful exercise from inspiring English sources

Not that drawing up the list — or rather, whittling it down­ — was a wholly painful exercise.

"For a company the size of Tesco, fixing this is a time-consuming and painful exercise".

And so begins the painful exercise of trying to delete emails to make space after someone sends you a massive attachment in the days of limited inbox space.

Davies's Kabuki act is so eccentrically hip that it provides comic relief in what turns out to be a very painful exercise in the higher solemnity.

Seeing those images and hearing all those stories is a painful exercise at best, cathartic only in the sense that repression is worse.

The QAA audit is a time-consuming and painful exercise, but few are willing to publicly criticise this unlevel playing field.

A popular custom was to undergo certain physically exhausting or painful exercises.

Anyone thought rude is made to do painful exercises known as "frog-jumps".

Recovering movement in his hands took three months of squeezing Silly Putty and stretching the scarred tendons with painful exercises.

While she spent years doing painful exercises to preserve her range of motion, her left arm still doesn't extend as far as her right arm, and her desire to learn how to play the piano has been thwarted by stiffness in her left hand.

They said Army officials had told them that in the hours before his death, Private Chen was harassed by fellow soldiers, who dragged him out of bed, pelted him with rocks and made him do painful exercises when he failed to turn off a water heater after showering.