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US
/dɪˈmændɪŋ/
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[ UK /dɪmˈɑːndɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dɪmˈɑːndɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill
found the job very demanding
a baby can be so demanding
How To Use demanding In A Sentence
- The security police quickly squelched an extremely rare public demonstration demanding political reform on Monday, the 41st anniversary of the Baath Party's seizure of power here.
- Deep navy, in contrast, is less demanding, and leaves a bit more colour in a blonde's cheeks.
- It gets progressively more demanding, too, taking a good 12 hours of study to absorb.
- To wake up with her belly-up and demanding affection is to have your heart explode with the kind of joy that compels some people into a life of large-scale oil painting.
- She was literally demanding your complete, undivided attention.
- Not so much a summer scorcher, then, but a hot ticket that remains boisterously good fun for the undemanding multiplex-goers.
- Greek and foreign suppliers are demanding to be prepaid for providing my company with goods and services. Times, Sunday Times
- A townswoman actually comes to the castle in despair, demanding her child; Dracula sets a pack of wolves on her.
- My husband is a banker with a very demanding schedule.
- * In primitive conditions, given the unsually demanding task (compared to other mammals) of raising human babies, paternal investment in offspring is required. The Volokh Conspiracy » Interracial Marriage Rates Going Up