How to Use stressful in a Sentence

stressful

adjective
  • I had a stressful day at work today.
  • The huddle was by far the most stressful part of the job.
    — Time, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Think about how stressful of a job that is on the best of days.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • While the result is stunning, the process was stressful, to say the least.
    — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2023
  • In the last few months, air travel has been stressful, to say the least.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Who could blame the guy for wanting to take a less stressful job?
    — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 23 July 2023
  • For many people, work is the most stressful part of their lives.
    — Jason Leverant, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • But finding the right person to present to the rest of the team and work with day in and day out is stressful.
    — Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin, Contributor, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2024
  • What was the hardest, or most stressful, scene to shoot?
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The change will also make the process less stressful for gate agents, Delta added.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2024
  • If the Suns check that off their list of to-dos, this round of the playoffs might not be as stressful as the last.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2022
  • This show's a good wind down to a stressful writing day.
    — Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 2 Dec. 2024
  • A day at the beach doesn't need to be stressful or expensive.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Gift-giving doesn’t have to be stressful, and a heartfelt gift is the best kind of present.
    — Enjanae' Taylor, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The protests of 2020, Evans told me, were more stressful than his deployment to Afghanistan.
    — Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • What's even more stressful is the fact nobody knows when the pain is going to end.
    — Robert Farrington, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • The group’s runners show up in spite of having stressful jobs or a long work day.
    — Diosa Femme, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Looking for the perfect gift doesn’t have to be stressful.
    — Frank Rojas Erik Carter, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Can't even imagine how stressful it's been for her through all of this.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Maya Rudolph is looking back on a stressful time in her life.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 1 May 2024
  • But that walkway in the wind was more like the most stressful place in San Francisco.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The two years of the pandemic were stressful — about how to keep distance.
    — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2022
  • Your home life has likely been rather stressful for a while.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The job was stressful, and Immelt’s weight hit two hundred and eighty pounds.
    — Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • But its last few months on Earth have been a little stressful.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2021
  • At the heart of the campaign is showing how stressful Fashion Week can be for your skin.
    — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • But the move has proven to be more stressful than expected.
    — Leda Alvim, ABC News, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The show is somehow stressful and relaxing at the same time.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
  • But while a reno reveal was far less stressful than his time on the Fox military training television series, Tyler did still have some jitters heading into the surprise.
    — Jordana Comiter, People.com, 28 May 2025
  • The pressure would have been stressful for any production, but the long take strategy that Goldberg and Rogen had established made shooting in the casino especially nerve-wracking.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 May 2025

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