"sorely challenged" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to face a difficult situation or task with a strong feeling of inadequacy or struggle. Example: The team was sorely challenged by their opponents in the final minutes of the game, but they managed to hold on and secure a victory. In this sentence, "sorely challenged" expresses the intense difficulty and struggle the team faced during the game.
Beyond those, I was sorely challenged to find reds I liked for less than $20.
One would be sorely challenged to find a cuter-looking gaggle of orphans than those that grace the Paper Mill stage, and at a recent matinee, their Act II reprise of "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile" finally brought a rather listless audience to whoop-it-up applause.
Yet even if you hadn't heard the plucky but sorely challenged Madison Civic Symphony labor in a high school auditorium in the 1960's, you could only have been impressed by its successor, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, playing in its gleaming new home, Overture Hall, on Friday and Saturday evenings.
The value of facts and evidence has been sorely challenged of late.
More teams to challenge Bayern are sorely needed but the existing, organic model makes them almost impossible to come by.
An amazingly passionate and energetic individual, quick-fire and intense, opinionated and committed to challenging injustice, she is, and will be, sorely missed.
And that has the potential to create a welcoming climate for new ideas that challenge this paradigm, ideas that have been sorely missing for too long.
The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, tweeted: "Rowan Williams will be sorely missed as Archbishop of Canterbury; did what he said he'd do – challenge the imagination of our country".
Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, tweeted: "Rowan Williams will be sorely missed as archbishop of Canterbury; did what he said he'd do – challenge the imagination of our country".
However, genetic manipulation of hPSCs is challenging and a method to simultaneously activate multiple genomic sites in a controllable manner is sorely needed.
Joseph Szimhart reviewed the book for Skeptical Inquirer, and wrote: "I enjoyed the book as a challenge to think about a sorely neglected topic".
