Sentence examples for the harrowing task from inspiring English sources

Most every Tuesday, a crew of cartoonists face the harrowing task of presenting their weekly batches of gags to this magazine for judgment.

The fiance of Karen Woo, the British doctor killed in the ambush of aid workers in northern Afghanistan, had the harrowing task today of identifying her body just two weeks before they were due to wed.

Back at home I enlisted the help of my roommate, comedian and writer Jillian Welsh, to undertake the harrowing task of eating snacks and talking about our fleeting youth.

Tragic Abdullah Kurdi is in the morgue facing harrowing task of formally identifying his two sons and wife.

It is a relentless, labor-intensive and harrowing task, overwhelmingly performed by mothers, that tests the strength of marriages, the resilience of siblings and the endurance of the women themselves, autism educators and medical professionals say.

Hooking up a U.S.B. cable, the usual way to sync a music player, has never been a particularly harrowing task.

Yet sifting through these documents could be a harrowing task.

Getting there is a harrowing task: She has to take two buses, and if she doesn't have bus fare, she walks, carrying Jamal in her arms.

Narrowing down Falls' movements has also proved to be a harrowing task for investigators, who say he did not carry a smartphone and did not appear to rely on modern technology.

That's the harrowing truth.

Rice also understands the harrowing nature of race riding.