Adjective : the grueling Boston marathon. From Dictionary.com.
Like most top chefs, his lifestyle could already be described as gruelling, starting work at 7am and finishing at 11pm after dinner. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Multiple call-backs are rare and long "gruelling" auditions even rarer. From Wordnik.com. [Loyalty] Reference
From what I know of Ellroy's life, I can imagine that "gruelling" understates the case. From Wordnik.com. [:Acquired Taste] Reference
We are now halfway through this 'gruelling' 12 week job interview. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
She desribed her treatment as 'gruelling' and insists her own perspective on life has changed. From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
"gruelling" or "plaguing", exactly those areas in the brain are being activated which process the corresponding pain. From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
Hmm ... 20 gruelling years versus 20 cutting words?. From Wordnik.com. [Guilty as charged] Reference
Better be in prime condition for the gruelling finish. From Wordnik.com. [Boy Scouts on a Long Hike Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps] Reference
The challenge now is hanging on to a gruelling schedule. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Hanagan: I never set out to win the jockey championship] Reference
Turks had had far too severe a gruelling to attempt pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
Anyway, the driving was gruelling, for Singaporeans, at least. From Wordnik.com. [jaimewolf Diary Entry] Reference
It's a long film, gruelling at times, but utterly spellbinding. From Wordnik.com. [Venice film festival] Reference
A gruelling cross-examination left Rastus unshaken in this story. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
In the midst of working out gruelling yet monotonous MA problems. From Wordnik.com. [jaimewolf Diary Entry] Reference
So Roosevelt was nominated, made a gruelling campaign, was elected by. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
A student dies after a gruelling football practice in the summer heat. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2009] Reference
It was subjected to a long period of gruelling fire from the Boches 'famous. From Wordnik.com. [History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico] Reference
Not an observer but believed that this gruelling contest had been worked out. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
I would find it very gruelling and I'd just like to ask you why you enjoy it. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Harvey B. Gantt, January 6, 1986. Interview C-0008. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
I have also started my journey on the long and gruelling path of passing french!. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
Thus many children are put through gruelling operations before succumbing to death. From Wordnik.com. [Great Ormond Street; Panorama: Spoilt Rotten; Young, Autistic and Stagestruck; The World's Strangest Plastic Surgery and Me; Welcome to Lagos; A Passionate Woman] Reference
His first movie job was as a walk-on in the gruelling Vietnam drama Casualties of War. From Wordnik.com. [John C Reilly: Confessions of a scene-stealer] Reference
Capital fun, mind you, but gruelling, and so the morning wore away, and myself with it. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the angel of the lord]
By that rationale, we should pardon any criminal whose trial would be long and gruelling. From Wordnik.com. [Type D D!] Reference
I need all the luck and confidence in the world to sit through the upcoming gruelling papers. From Wordnik.com. [babycartercl Diary Entry] Reference
The retreat to Corunna was one of the most gruelling exploits ever forced onto a British army. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
Richard Hughes has spent six months engaged in the most gruelling contest Flat racing can offer. From Wordnik.com. [Chain-smoker Richard Hughes all fired up for jockeys' title battle] Reference
Fortunately Juarez was in fine condition, or he could never have stood the gruelling work ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
He lives here and its not like its some gruelling task to stay out of the kitchen for 5 bloody min. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
It's not only the lure of big bucks but the gruelling Brazilian schedule that drives the talent overseas. From Wordnik.com. [THE FALL OF FOOTBALL] Reference
He had no doubt that Flora Miles had emphatically refused the possibility of another gruelling interview. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
This suggests there may be a frailty in his squad and its ability to deal with the gruelling nine-month campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Theo Walcott's ankle injury adds to Arsenal's problems] Reference
Of course, the impressive order of march at the beginning could not be maintained throughout the gruelling expedition. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
Some more recruits were received, some of them remaining after a gruelling try-out, and others "falling by the wayside.". From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles] Reference
He was demoted to the Arsenal bench for a gruelling away match at Blackburn on Saturday and took part for only the closing six minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Fabio Capello keen to convey sense of the new and regain old renown] Reference
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