How to Use difficult in a Sentence

difficult

adjective
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  • Some difficult days lie ahead of us.
  • It's more difficult than it sounds.
  • I had to make a very difficult decision.
  • We were asked lots of difficult questions.
  • I found myself in a difficult position.
  • These changes will make life difficult for everyone involved.
  • We'll be hiking over difficult terrain.
  • Yemen is the most difficult place in the world to be a child.
    — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • To have to turn around and push a plunger is difficult.
    — Melissa Chan, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
  • What’s been the most difficult glacier to cross so far?
    — National Geographic, 3 July 2019
  • The pass was high and inside and would have been a difficult catch.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Your question is difficult due to the lack of specifics.
    — John Cox, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2020
  • This love is what makes weeks like the last one so difficult.
    — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 3 Dec. 2018
  • But staying on the good side of the rules shouldn’t be difficult.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
  • The work will be difficult and take time, but it must be done.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 20 June 2018
  • Your child has to feel safe to come to you with difficult matters.
    — Irina Gonzalez, Parents, 23 Oct. 2023
  • First, the job is many things, but difficult is not one of them.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Those things are easy to say but much more difficult to do.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Some had difficult childhoods and looked to sports as a way up.
    — Michael Murney, Chron, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Moving the ball in the red zone is more difficult than elsewhere.
    — Emmanuel Morgan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2021
  • The even more difficult trick would be doing it all again.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Finding the best board games for teens doesn't have to be difficult.
    — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Teen Vogue, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Cradles may be difficult to adjust to the size of your phone.
    — Ethan May, The Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2020
  • But staying in shape throughout the last year and a half has been difficult.
    — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Choosing the right serum for your skin type doesn’t need to be difficult.
    — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 22 Nov. 2022
  • But that’s difficult for us in the news media to accept.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • To play the first match as if nothing had happened is difficult.
    — SI.com, 12 July 2018
  • The law’s fine print could make that mission difficult to achieve.
    — Julie Bykowicz, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
  • How difficult might that be for him and his teammates and coaches?
    — Mike Hiserman, latimes.com, 28 Oct. 2017
  • But in spite of its size, the asteroid has proved difficult to study.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020

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