burden

How To Use burden In A Sentence

• The overall tax burden, according to the Tax Foundation, is the third-lowest in the nation.
• The burden of his espionage responsibilities gives him a distinct air of desperation.
• It was the least encumbered of all the tenures with obsolete and burdensome features, reminiscent of an older day, when land-holding involved public rights and duties as well as private rights of ownership.
• Adopting, the additional computative burden imposed by it notwithstanding, Schonfeld's modification of Airy's formulæ, he introduced into his equations a fifth unknown quantity expressive of a possible stellar drift in galactic longitude. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
• Cultural practices have survived or fallen only in part because of their effect on the strength of the group, and those which have survived are usually burdened with unnecessary impedimenta.
• He appeared periodically in the villages with his eight donkeys, or neddies as he called them, with jingling bells on their headstalls and their burdens of two sacks of small coal on each. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
• She felt a burden lifting off her shoulders and smiled at the carefree feeling that permeated her senses.
• They shared the joy and burden of editing for the next thirteen years, the longest period of any coeditorship in the journal's existence.
• The Education Department has stipulated in writing that the burden on students must be reduced.
• Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters. Jamaica Information Service