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Example sentences from the Web for gruellingHarry, the expedition patron, announced last month that he will join the gruelling 210-mile trek across Antarctica this winter. Thanks Bro! Royal Charity Donates £100,000 to Harry's South Pole Mission|Tom Sykes|May 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST Fortunately Juarez was in fine condition, or he could never have stood the gruelling work ahead. Frontier Boys on the Coast|Capt. Wyn Roosevelt It was one phase of the campaign that closely approximated the gruelling trench warfare in France. War in the Garden of Eden|Kermit Roosevelt And into the whirl of it Carter Brent plunged with a zest born of youth and of muscles iron-hard from the gruelling trail. Snowdrift|James B. Hendryx
He's like a fractious colt just now—but when he's had a bit of gruelling, he'll run true to form. The Tempering|Charles Neville Buck Besides, the utter mystery that enveloped the affair was gruelling to the mind. The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise|Margaret Burnham
adjectivesevere or tiringa gruelling interview nouninformal a severe experience, esp punishment Word Origin for gruellingC19: from now obsolete vb gruel to exhaust, punish Words nearby gruellinggrudging, Grudziadz, grue, gruel, grueling, gruelling, Gruenberg, gruesome, gruff, gruffy, grugru Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |