DIFFICULT in a Sentence

Learn DIFFICULT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for DIFFICULT, such as:
1. The cave is difficult of access.
2. It was difficult to tell his exact age.
3. It would be difficult for us to accept.
4. The most difficult thing is the decision to act.
5. We alone is the best penalty we originally fault how difficult.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DIFFICULT
difficult
 a.  hard to control
 a.  not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  This was difficult, for Scarlett had not a subtle bone in her body; and Gerald was so much like her he never failed to penetrate her weak subterfuges, even as she penetrated his.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  She hoped everything would work out that way, because it would be more difficult otherwise.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  She could see that Stuart was going to be difficult to handle today if she flirted with anyone else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  The men in the commissary were not very exciting, and the sight of Frank's timid courting annoyed her until she found it difficult to be polite to him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  She had very little interest in Wade and sometimes it was difficult to remember that he was actually hers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  They all waved and called to her as they went by and she tried to respond with a good grace, but it was difficult.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  It is difficult for me to believe that you could so forget yourself and your rearing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  She did not realize that, with his encouragement, she had disregarded many of the sternest injunctions of her mother concerning the proprieties, forgotten the difficult lessons in being a lady.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  She paused and thought it might be difficult to get the hat without some explanation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  So great was the shortage of paper in the Confederacy now that Gerald's note was written between the lines of her last letter to him and reading it was difficult.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  It was going to be difficult, telling Melanie that she and Prissy were to deliver her baby.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  Old ladies were so difficult, Young Miss whispered to Sally as they went back to their sewing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  She had seen fires in cotton before and she knew how difficult they were to put out, even with many men laboring at it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  "Mr. Hilton has been so kind about staying with us through these difficult times," said Mrs. Calvert nervously, casting quick glances at her silent stepdaughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
2  It would be difficult for us to accept.
3  The cave is difficult of access.
4  An agreement is looking decidedly difficult according to the newspapers.
5  Sometimes, that standard is quite difficult, if not impossible, to achieve.
6  The UN must perform a difficult balancing act between the two sides in the conflict.
7  The most difficult thing is the decision to act.
8  It is difficult to foresee the consequences that may arise from this action.
9  I couldn't admit to my parents that I was finding the course difficult.
10  It was difficult to tell his exact age.
11  I agree things look difficult, but the situation is far from irretrievable.
12  It is difficult to imagine how the North and South could ever agree on a formula to unify the divided peninsula.
13  We alone is the best penalty we originally fault how difficult.
14  It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday, today is the hope, but also can become tomorrow's reality.
15  Not only are mothers not paid but also most of their boring or difficult work is unnoticed.