Example sentences for: painstaking

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

  • The whole process is both painstaking and expensive, and the “democratization” of the imperial institutions since the emperor renounced his divinity means the shrines (rather than the state) must now foot the bill.

  • As part of the publication process, some authors deposit data into a database but, more often, it is extracted from the published literature and deposited into the databases by human curators, a painstaking process.

  • "Important," says the New York Times Book Review . "[B]rilliantly rendered," says the Weekly Standard . Praise goes to Lefkowitz's "painstaking" reporting.

  • This is bogus scholarship, filled with nonexistent secrets, aimed to shock" (Kenneth L. Woodward, Newsweek ). Others take his claims to heart: "By combining the painstaking research of other scholars with his own new documentation," Cornwell "makes a case ...

  • And Leigh's technique of leaping back and forth between the finished Mikado and painstaking scenes of rehearsal has magic in it: You're watching straw, then gold, then straw, then gold.


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