Sentence examples for painstaking hours from inspiring English sources

"I felt like the little red hen who declared, 'I'll do it myself.' " He spent 400 painstaking hours on the dresses.

Having devoted hundreds of unpaid, painstaking hours to the rectory matter, however, the commission could hardly be expected to soldier on, after such a vote of "no confidence" from the town board.

Flash turns painstaking hours of animation into a streamlined computerized process.

His previously dodgy putting stroke looked much more secure in Houston last week after spending painstaking hours working on the practice greens.

Painstaking hours have gone into figuring out what Brexit meant.

After 1,300 painstaking hours of cleaning, chiseling and picking, technicians revealed the fossil buried in all that stone.

For hour after painstaking hour, Republicans presented their vision for America through a series of amendments designed to cut spending in Washington.

"Pure couture," said Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy, giving a personal tour of the 10 pieces that were put together with painstaking detail, hours of handwork and extraordinary craftsmanship, much of it resuscitated from the distant past.

It was a moment that mingled triumph with relief as the UK's first double hand transplant patient awoke from a painstaking 12-hour operation with two new sets of fingers.

Fung enlisted Livia Tsang, his resident tattoo artist at Chronic Ink parlor in Toronto, Canada, for the painstaking three-hour job.

The search for the missing victims resumed after the half-submerged ship was raised back to an upright position in a painstaking, 19-hour salvage operation last week.