Example sentences for: sisyphean

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

  • She offers no great hopes, encourages no daydreams, realizes that life is at best a Sisyphean effort for serious people and that most of us will never get that rock halfway up the hill to begin with.

  • It's hard not to think of Charlton Heston in The Agony and the Ecstasy : Alone on the high scaffold, paint dripping into his upturned eyes, he pushes forward with his Sisyphean task as Rex Harrison (playing Michelangelo's impatient patron, Pope Julius II) paces angrily below.

  • Skeptics point out that enforcing the restrictions on Web sites is Sisyphean, and enforcing them on e-mail is virtually impossible.


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