ONEROUS in a Sentence

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1. My household duties were not particularly onerous.
2. He asked for an assistant because his work load was too onerous.
3. A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.

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 Meanings and Examples of ONEROUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
onerous
 a.  burdensome or oppressive; not easily borne; wearing
Classic Sentence:
1  Scarlett wondered how he managed so onerous a job in his condition but asked no questions, realizing wryly that almost anything was possible when necessity drove.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  By the way, your instructions to me never to allow Sir Henry to go out alone will become very much more onerous if a love affair were to be added to our other difficulties.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
3  And Boris, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, became quite pleasant again.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
4  A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
Example Sentence:
1  He asked for an assistant because his work load was too onerous.
2  The funding proposal put to Greece by its creditors would place an onerous burden on the government of Alexis Tsipras, the radical left premier who vowed to end austerity and the cut the national debt when he took power in January.
3  My household duties were not particularly onerous.