How To Use Strenuous In A Sentence

Strenuously jamming their alleged principles into an oubliette is an exercise that apparently causes blindness, as well. Archive 2009-11-01
And he is not alone in judging the test less than strenuous. Times, Sunday Times
And so he had grown in the warmth of his parents 'love, trained in what we call outdoor sports, but which are life itself to the Arab, until at fourteen no one could surpass him in running or horsemanship or spear-throwing, whilst with rifle or revolver he could clip the hair off the top of a man's head, the which strenuous accomplishments he balanced in passing his leisure moments in the gentle arts of verse-making and even music, in spite of the latter being condemned by religion; also did he learn to converse in foreign tongues. Desert Love
She made strenuous efforts to tame her anger.
Do not undertake strenuous exercise for a few hours after a meal to allow food to digest.

Linguix Browser extension

Fix your writing
on millions of websites

Get Started
For Free Watch how it works

In the case of the anti-deficit campaign, flaccid fiscal management was a weakness to be strenuously avoided.
2 miles; strenuous walk, steep ascent; hillwalking footwear. Times, Sunday Times
Patients returned to sedentary work after 1 week and to strenuous work after 5 to 6 months.
It's a fairly strenuous activity, but only needs doing twice a year.
Schools of occultism insist most strenuously on the deific and all-powerful nature of such beings.
This is a masterly account: detailed but always readable, authoritative but strenuously objective.
Control of the arts by government is a Soviet ambition and, as such, should strenuously be resisted in a free society.
Many studies have shown that strenuous physical activity reduces the production of female hormones such as oestrogen from the ovaries. Times, Sunday Times
Doing this exercise before doing the more strenuous weighted exercises is a good way to warm up these muscles. The Sun
Count on more of his unusual routines, such as his strenuously graceful paeans to classical opera, sung by his favorite singer.
It would be impossible to learn who was the first aerial trapezist, for instance, or where high wire performing was brought from, just when the trick of adjusting the body to these difficult and strenuous rhythms was originated. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
Sherry's been making a strenuous effort to lose weight.
This intelligence, which, at any other time, would have been received with rapturous enthusiasm, was listened to under the influence of a counterirritant already at work, with comparative calmness, and its only effect was to cause a postponement of the vote on the laborers 'bill upon the plea of the lateness of the hour, although not without strenuous opposition from the extreme right. Edmond Dantès
The Beverage Council of Ireland this weekend strenuously denied that the organisation had been involved in illegal price-fixing in the wholesale drinks market.
He was immediately prohibited from engaging in strenuous activity.
He is strenuously keen to refute any charges of elitism that might still cling to the place. Times, Sunday Times
When it comes to the purported conquest of Canaan, individuals like Bryant Wood have strenuously tried to relocate Ai and redate the fall of Jericho's walls. Archive 2009-04-01
Some authors fill a novel with futuristic scenery and jargon and then strenuously, even stertorously, deny that it's science fiction. Embassytown by China Miéville – review
In spite of advancing years and not too robust health, he laboured strenuously until the state of his health made it necessary for him to retire.
Doing this exercise before doing the more strenuous weighted exercises is a good way to warm up these muscles. The Sun
The administration argues strenuously that the arbitrator's award is dispositive of Mr. Yousry's legal status.
Stiller and Cotterill gained selection after strenuous testing alongside the country's dozen best scullers in Britain, who had battled through 150 hopefuls in the Great Britain trials last autumn.
Nicephorus and Leo, triumphed over the Saracens, the hours which the emperor owed to his people were consumed in strenuous idleness. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Brunel team advise against an early morning workout because strenuous exercise will also lower your resistance to bugs. The Sun
The company has made strenuous attempts to improve its image in recent years.
You may need to avoid strenuous exercise for up to a month, but walking and gentle exercises are encouraged.
Regular light exercise is safer and more effective than occasional bouts of strenuous exercise.
Sure you can go for a rugged hike, but strenuous activity isn't required for getting the benefits of exercise.
The Major, who heard her, and who knew it was not to himself, strenuously declared this could only be for country dances, and therefore would not interfere with a cotillon. Camilla
May I be strenuous, energetic and persevering !May I be patient! May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others! May I ever keep a promise given!
The company has made strenuous attempts to improve its image in recent years.
Frequently our younger engineers had leisure activities involving strenuous physical activity.
The performance style is deadpan, while cutesy narrative resolutions are strenuously avoided. Times, Sunday Times
They were wearied out with the strenuous manual labour.
This check up shows he's fully fit to carry out his strenuous lifestyle as a hospital porter.
Physically demanding labour has been replaced by less strenuous work in offices. Times, Sunday Times
The strenuous exercise undergone could balance out the increased calories.
For those seeking less strenuous pursuits, gourmet restaurants, shops and manicured grounds will be available. Times, Sunday Times
But just as Sheen arrived and the ranks of the expedition were beginning to give way before the strenuous onslaught of the Judies, the latter, almost with one accord, turned and bolted into their playground again. The White Feather
The Brunel team advise against an early morning workout because strenuous exercise will also lower your resistance to bugs. The Sun
The memo listed the potential side effects of ephedra and stressed that the HHS warning was directed to "athletes and those who engage in strenuous physical activities. USATODAY.com - Players union issues ephedra warning
In spite of strenuous effort, Mr Heath remained less popular in the country than the party he led and unbeloved by his own rank-and-file.
Insistent, urging everything before it -- the toil of strenuous study, the fret of little trouble, and the dreams of dawning love -- the call stirs on. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
As Jolly notes in her introduction and own chapter in the book, the binaries of tradition and modernity are often reinforced by strenuous defenses by advocates on both sides.
Heart attacks resulting from coronary artery disease are the commonest cause of fatality in many strenuous sports. Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Easy Stages
It is staffed by the most amiable and strenuously obliging bunch of cosmopolitan youngsters who appear not to have been corrupted by working in hotel chains.
I strenuously reject the word 'pardon,' because I did not commit a crime to be pardoned by the leader of the army. NYT > Home Page
The efforts were equally strenuous behind the scenes as officials tried to impress foreign investors.
he objected strenuously to the stand his party was taking
After last year's Convention of women, I saw an article in a Unitarian paper edited by the Rev.Mr. Bellows of New York, where, in reply to a correspondent on the subject of woman's rights, in which he strenuously opposed her taking part in any thing in public, he said, "Public woman unbonnated and unshawled before the public gaze, and what becomes of her modesty and her virtue? An Address On Woman's Rights
With slantly-churning jaws and swallows down. "] [Footnote 38: The deities of Olympus, being immortal, have no need of strenuous haste. Poets of the South
And all that strenuous, self-improvement stuff people do - ugh!
With more strenuous action, we might now have more convictions rather than lots of abnormal data. Times, Sunday Times
Sherry's been making a strenuous effort to lose weight.
Hebrew, along with his intense spirituality and his moral strenuousness, lacked intellectual justness, sense of proportion, social appreciativeness, artistic truth and sobriety. Platform Monologues
The performance style is deadpan, while cutesy narrative resolutions are strenuously avoided. Times, Sunday Times
It is often caused by strenuous exercise that leads to a pooling of blood to the leg muscles. Times, Sunday Times
He will make strenuous efforts to make sure that no criminal act on the inside, or the outside, can be traced back to him.
Put your feet up, relax and avoid any strenuous activity for at least a week. Times, Sunday Times
Fewer patients were asymptomatic during moderate and strenuous sports activities.
People with heart and lung problems and the elderly were advised to reduce strenuous outdoor exercise. The Sun
After a pleasant preamble by a stream, a strenuous uphill section over rough lava flows brings you to the South Crater.
He has kept in touch with his lender, made token payments along the way and is making strenuous efforts to find a job. The Sun
It was nearly a full mile to the house at the end of the path, and it was only the heat of the day and the strenuousness of the exercise that prevented him from calling out to the inhabitants of the house.
Lacking any access to the strenuous life of the outdoors, they would be physically feeble.
The pi cottah, used primarily in India, is similar to the shaduf but is operated by two people, one of whom acts as a moving counter weight to eliminate much of the strenuous work of returning the water container against a stationary counter weight. 29 Although it can lift water 5-8 m (16-26 ft), its output is small, and it is used primarily to water small vegetable plots. 5. How plants live and grow
He strenuously advised the board against allowing a film company unlimited access to make a fly-on-the-wall documentary. Times, Sunday Times
No one is straining himself; indeed, Noah is having a nap, perhaps exhausted by the very thought of the strenuous timetable drawn up for him.
Doing this exercise before doing the more strenuous weighted exercises is a good way to warm up these muscles. The Sun
He became strenuous, diligent, modest, earnest, kind; he too, like Walter and Charlie, began his career "_from strength to strength_. St. Winifred's, or The World of School
The enterprise of AIDS prevention in the gay world has strenuously avoided any detailed examination of these mechanisms.
So it is simultaneously in his very first sentence a Marxist and a Darwinian vocabulary that Eikhenbaum is invoking, and that's what partly accounts for the strenuousness of his rhetoric.
Bardell could afford, soon afterwards rendered the amplest justice — indeed they wholly vanished before their strenuous exertions. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Strenuous efforts were made throughout the war to disguise the scale of civilian casualties.
He also argued strenuously ( against the prevailing opinion ) for the free admission of immigrants.
He would exert himself more strenuously when working up his trainer's uphill gallop of a morning. Times, Sunday Times
Always a disciple of hearty and strenuous living, he suggested more than casually his own famous character - the intrepid warrior, adventurer, and seizer of thrones, Conan the Cimmerian. The Conan Chronicles
No matter how strenuously some may try to deny it, atheism is a belief system.
One viewpoint which has taken me utterly by warn is the strenuous cry for a Chiefs to breeze an Offensive Tackle in a initial round. Archive 2009-11-01
The 6.5 mile trail offers a strenuous climb up Taylor Hill followed by a twisting downhill.
He could agree to something on one day and object strenuously the next. Times, Sunday Times
It's not as strenuous as mountain climbing, or bicycling around the world, or trekking through a jungle.
He could agree to something on one day and object strenuously the next. Times, Sunday Times
Physical activity, even if it's not very strenuous, may trigger extreme fatigue, dizziness or even fainting.
She makes strenuous efforts to imply that his work was political. Times, Sunday Times
They also can make users feel more aggressive and better able to perform strenuous physical activity. Taking Drugs Seriously
We are a collective, and strenuous attempts of all of us were agglomerated at every step.
The enterprise of AIDS prevention in the gay world has strenuously avoided any detailed examination of these mechanisms.
Balzac protested strenuously against the use of the word "gigantesque" in reference to his work; and of course it is susceptible of an unhandsome innuendo. The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
As to the micro-damage, this is often marked enough to see in electron micrographs of endurance runners' leg muscles, and might prove even more severe after strenuous climbs.
Ken Fallin Little by little, the momentum of my strenuous two-handed yanking began to rock a giant steel double hoop straddling the spine of the 15-foot-high, multiton piece. America's Great Man of Steel
People with heart and lung problems and the elderly were advised to reduce strenuous outdoor exercise. The Sun
Physically demanding labour has been replaced by less strenuous work in offices. Times, Sunday Times
They also can make users feel more aggressive and better able to perform strenuous physical activity. Taking Drugs Seriously
_Christian Inquirer_, a Unitarian paper, edited by the Rev.Mr. Bellows, of New York, where, in reply to a correspondent on the subject of Woman's Rights, in which he strenuously opposed her taking part in anything in public, he said: "Place woman unbonneted and unshawled before the public gaze and what becomes of her modesty and her virtue? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
As I felt unprepared for an even closer look at him, and even less inclined to take in the halitosis and BO that no doubt accompanied his cosmetic unpleasantness, I strenuously endeavoured to decline his invitation.
He spoke with scorn of the "rights of women," their demand for the suffrage, and the _cohue_ of female authors, expressing himself in terms of ridiculous disparagement of writers so eminent as George Sand and George Eliot; but he strenuously advocated the claim of women to a recognised medical education. Thomas Carlyle
A few years back, over strenuous public protests, that vantage point was overtaken. Smithsonian Mag
One can stand at these sites and almost go back thousands of years and visualize the strenuous efforts required to simply exist in this waterless, uncultivable, inhospitable land.
The story concerns the strenuous career of Alessandro Stradella, and when you read it you will not wonder that it should have made a great success as an opera, or that it gave Flotow his greatest popularity next to “Martha,” even though its conclusion was made tamely theatrical. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians
Regular exercise is better than occasional bouts of strenuous activity.
I guess by the time she's my age I'll be content with exertion no more strenuous than a nightly constitutional.
The technique gives the demographer something concrete to work with, for written records on men are much more readily available than those on women; but it certainly requires strenuous qualification if used in the Newfoundland context, for it mutes the matrilineal bridges and matrilocal/uxorilocal residence patterns that often predated patrilineal-patrilocal patterns in early settlement. Gutenber-e Help Page
A treaty was urgently required and strenuous efforts should be made to secure participation and cooperation with the Soviet Union.
He rarely does anything more strenuous than changing the channels on the television.
He has kept in touch with his lender, made token payments along the way and is making strenuous efforts to find a job. The Sun
The doctor advised Ken to avoid strenuous exercise.
The driver made a strenuous effort to find it. The Tribes Triumphant
Small children in the audience could be heard objecting rather strenuously to this plot twist.
Riding in each others’ slipstreams is crucial to race tactics: a lone rider has little chance of outracing a small group of riders who can take turns in the strenuous position at the front of the group.
A project Levinson has wanted to make since before "Diner," it's a strenuously whimsical antimilitarist fable that harks back to the era of "Willy Wonka" and "Brewster McCloud. Not A Season To Be Jolly
We are told by one of them that “she had upbuilt with strenuous pains a resolute virtue,” conquering many faults, and gaining a lofty nobleness of spirit. George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy
Start gently and build up to the more strenuous exercises.
There is no strenuous exercise involved and no special equipment is needed.
This technique will get you down a couloir no wider than your skis, allow you to climb - albeit strenuously - without skins, and save you from all manner of hairy situations.
The most explicitly religious part of his myth is the most strenuously, and the least successfully, allegorized. LOSING OUR RELIGION
For those seeking less strenuous pursuits, gourmet restaurants, shops and manicured grounds will be available. Times, Sunday Times
The waters around Pitcairn are fierce and turbulent, with diving made strenuous by the strong currents.
And he is not alone in judging the test less than strenuous. Times, Sunday Times
A thought-provoking reach from a sharp fingerhold on the roof's lip gains a strenuous and exposed upper wall.
Avoid strenuous exercise in the evening.
They conquered the flood after a strenuous fight lasting four days and four nights.
The condition would have placed him at risk of sudden death had he continued to engage in strenuous activity. Times, Sunday Times
He believes the proposals are a recipe for disaster and is strenuously opposed to the idea.
Strenuous efforts at concretion confront the inevitability of mutability.
May I be strenuous, energetic and persevering !May I be patient! May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others! May I ever keep a promise given!
Frequently our younger engineers had leisure activities involving strenuous physical activity.
An activity that's a little less strenuous, thankfully. The Sun
_Underwoods_, _Epigrams_, &c. he is sometimes bold and strenuous, sometimes Magisterial, sometimes lepid and full enough of conceit, and sometimes a man as other men are. The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
May I be strenuous, energetic and persevering !May I be patient! May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others! May I ever keep a promise given!
Do not undertake strenuous exercise for a few hours after a meal to allow food to digest.
The client can decide on the length and duration of the game walk, anything from a strenuous 3- hour hike to a more leisurely 30-minute stroll.
A few years back, over strenuous public protests, that vantage point was overtaken. Smithsonian Mag
As regards the question of Cetywayo's bloodthirstiness, which is so strenuously denied by his apologists, I cannot say that a careful study of the blue books bearing on the subject brings me to the same conclusion. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
Even an avocation demands strenuous devotion and fortitude.
Some doctors have made strenuous efforts to address this notoriously difficult area with further training.
I knew nothing of this, of course, and on the penultimate day of the Congress, a Friday, as I was strolling home enjoying the morning after a strenuous late breakfast with Caprice, I was taken flat aback by Blowitz's moon face goggling at me from the window of a drosky drawn up near my hotel. Watershed
Regular exercise is better than occasional bouts of strenuous activity.
They also can make users feel more aggressive and better able to perform strenuous physical activity. Taking Drugs Seriously
Erasmus Darwin's fate, his chronic diseases, strenuous urging of social and organic progress, and posthumous obloquy, were too close for comfort to his grandson's hopes and fears.
Most local residents strenuously object to the building proposals.
He rarely does anything more strenuous than changing the channels on the television.
An activity that's a little less strenuous, thankfully. The Sun
He is strenuously keen to refute any charges of elitism that might still cling to the place. Times, Sunday Times
The Brunel team advise against an early morning workout because strenuous exercise will also lower your resistance to bugs. The Sun
Reporting a rape remains a strenuous and harrowing experience, however, and it is likely to continue as an underreported offence.
The cropping, the strenuous poses and the three-quarter positioning are especially reminiscent of the fragmented figures of struggling warriors on the Parthenon metopes.
Daisy, a mid-sized, mixed-breed dog adopted from Greenwich Animal Control's shelter, longed for strenuous exercise that the 59-year-old Swan was unable to provide because of what he described as a shaky leg that keeps him from walking more than a mile at a time. Home - BostonHerald.com
However, vigorous aerobic exercise, like hard running or strenuous hiking, produces pronounced changes.
The Brunel team advise against an early morning workout because strenuous exercise will also lower your resistance to bugs. The Sun
The attrition rate was horrible, especially on the days that Nabers ordered strenuous exercise drills.
Strenuous efforts had been made to improve conditions in the jail.
Even the Indians, towards whom some of my fellow countrymen have a condescending attitude, made strenuous efforts to revive the long-dead language of Sanskrit.
May I be strenuous, energetic and persevering !May I be patient! May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others! May I ever keep a promise given!
Do not undertake strenuous exercise for a few hours after a meal to allow food to digest.
Of course, being called gaijin in Tokyo was no fun for me either, but I think they know they're wrong too, and that's why people deny it so strenuously when caught out. "So what is it that makes Rosie's 'ching chong' so offensive?"
Nicholas said the work - cutting through the remains of a huge concrete safe - had been strenuous and they had taken it in turns to operate the breaker.
It's not exactly strenuous exercise but at least it keeps me moving. The Sun
He has died in harness, as befits one of the most strenuous and unwearying workers of his time. Times, Sunday Times
The patient should be awakened from sleep every two hours and avoid should strenuous activity for at least 24 hours.
Jog if you must, he says, but running is too strenuous, especially if you've been leading a sedentary life. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
Regular exercise is better than occasional bouts of strenuous activity.
A number of US telcos had objected strenuously to the way in which the competition had been run.
After two strenuous months of hard work, mid-term had finally arrived for the Army Academy High School cadets on Arduous Prime.
His preferred terms of admiration reflect the Victorian preoccupation with ‘character’, inflected perhaps by his endorsement of strenuousness as the essential ingredient of moral heroism.
Perfect holidays for me involve strenuous exercise and visiting cultural sites in blinding heat. Times, Sunday Times
Repetitive, strenuous, isometric contractions of the pectoralis major muscle over 6 weeks produced about a 50% increase in strength and expiratory reserve volume, and a 14% decrease in residual volume in six patients with tetraplegia.
The only advice is - no strenuous physical exercise for the rest of the day.
In fact, the behind s of each graduation design include the strenuous effort of bookmaker.
For those seeking less strenuous pursuits, gourmet restaurants, shops and manicured grounds will be available. Times, Sunday Times
Public entertainment can go ahead at the Barge Inn at Honeystreet despite some strenuous opposition from neighbours wanting to preserve their rural idyll.
The idea that you should hold your keen pupils back to make life less strenuous for a secondary school teacher is monstrous.
I have always been fit, but these past few months, I have been training strenuously for this role.
Start gently and build up to the more strenuous exercises.
At last the Pehlevi or old Iranian origin of the work found an able and strenuous advocate in Baron von The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
On this moderate-to-strenuous trip, we'll walk the pastoral lowland glens along the banks of exquisite Loch Lomond to the great Scottish Highlands.
He rarely does anything more strenuous than changing the channels on the television.
Classify Zhu Wei among the'cynical realists ', and he strenuously objects.
If your Shih Tzu objects strenuously to nail grinding, it is advisable to not force the issue since grinding is mostly for a cosmetic effect.
The knitting correspondent was taking a well-earned break from the strenuous world of woollens, courtesy of her travel editor.
You are deftly bypassing this strenuous part of the process. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
Underwoods, Epigrams, &c. he is sometimes bold and strenuous, sometimes Magisterial, sometimes lepid and full enough of conceit, and sometimes a man as other men are. The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets
Strenuous efforts had been made to improve conditions in the jail.
May I be strenuous, energetic and persevering !May I be patient! May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others! May I ever keep a promise given!
It's probably the combination of strenuous exercise plus the strain the cold puts on the heart. The Sun
We are told by one of them that "she had upbuilt with strenuous pains a resolute virtue," conquering many faults, and gaining a lofty nobleness of spirit. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
He makes his body's tortured movements perversely vigorous, strenuously dragging his twisted leg, glaring fiercely, and speaking fast with a hard edge.
Broken into a bowl, two eggs seasoned with salt and pepper are briefly but strenuously beaten.
He was somewhat overweary after a strenuous year; but to Dartmoor he always came for health and rest when opportunity offered, and now he had returned for the third time to the Duchy Hotel at The Red Redmaynes
Do not undertake strenuous exercise for a few hours after a meal to allow food to digest.
McKay no longer argues as strenuously that the tiny microfossil is an important part of his case, because he is finding what he believes are much larger Martian microbes in other meteorites. First Contact
SOṆĀ, 'Bahuputtikā,' daughter of a clansman of Sāvatthī, foremost of the Sisters who were eminent in strenuous will Psalms of the Sisters
Men are told to avoid all strenuous activity following a hair transplant - or the scalp may reject the new tufts. The Sun
A forceful orator and an advocate of the strenuous life, Roosevelt with his bushy mustache, pince-nez, and wide, toothy grin was a caricaturist's delight.
The driver made a strenuous effort to find it. The Tribes Triumphant

How To Use Strenuous In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):