demanding

[ US /dɪˈmændɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dɪmˈɑːndɪŋ/ ]

ADJECTIVE

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

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How To Use demanding In A Sentence

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
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.
But how do you make sure you don't tip into demanding too much or go too far the other way and get lazy about asserting your needs? The Sun
When like me you have chosen the tough and rugged regime of living in a lighthouse for two nights, you will know that getting your daily victuals can be a demanding task.