Sentence examples for sentence hard from inspiring English sources

(More broadly, the passive voice and convoluted structure make this sentence hard to read).

Furthermore, anything that makes a sentence longer than it ought to be -- including words that aren't essential -- makes a sentence harder to parse.

Even when he is reciting formulaic union position statements, he does so in a gentle way, with an upward, questioning lilt to his sentences, hard to combine with a fist-thumping delivery.

After graduating, it wasn't like "clown school or Yale?" Still, the trace metals made sentences hard.

The goal of the present study is to elucidate the nature of selective activations to reversible object-embedded clauses by distinguishing the effects of 2 different factors that make these sentences hard to process.

(It may have a point there: Doesn't the fact that everyone had left but one man suggest just how late it was?) The second sentence is "hard to read" and the third is "very hard to read".

Prisoners on long sentences do hard time; students corrected by ultraprescriptive grammarians say, "Don't give me a hard time".