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Example sentences for: onerous

How can you use “onerous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He says regulation only gets more onerous over time.
The procedure would require a little research in the library, but that would not be onerous.
After all, even this architectural utopia has turned out to have its downsides: onerous zoning and architectural restrictions, rules about what you can and cannot do with your garden, a general atmosphere of community-mindedness that can grate on a soul, if that soul (like Truman) starts to develop a live-free-or-die approach to things.
Cumbersome ethics rules have made simply accepting a nomination onerous: Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala had to pay accountants $20,000 just to complete her financial disclosure forms.
Various devices such as bonuses and stock options enable companies to reasonably assure themselves of the continuing employment of key executives without violating the 13 th Amendment's onerous ban on what should more accurately be called "contracts of permanent employment."