BURDEN in a Sentence
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193 example sentences for BURDEN, such as:
1. Many hands make a burden lighter.
2. A donkey can carry a heavy burden.
3. A burden of one's choice is not felt.
4. He could not shoulder the burden alone.
5. None knows the weight of another's burden.
2. A donkey can carry a heavy burden.
3. A burden of one's choice is not felt.
4. He could not shoulder the burden alone.
5. None knows the weight of another's burden.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of BURDEN
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burden
v. weight down with a load
n. an onerous or difficult concern
Classic Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
1 Most people were either indifferent to his troubles, or disposed to think it natural that a young fellow of his age should have carried without repining the burden of three crippled lives.
2 Her companion, who was just coming back to the table with the remains of a cold mince-pie in a battered pie-dish, set down her unappetising burden without appearing to hear the accusation brought against her.
3 Mrs. Hale drew a deep breath, as though her memory were eased of its long burden, and she had no more to say; but suddenly an impulse of complete avowal seized her.
4 Catching sight of Mammy's burden, Scarlett's expression changed from one of minor irritation to obstinate belligerency.
5 The large cut-glass bowl held at the door by the Elsings' butler had been emptied twice of its burden of silver coins.
6 When Lincoln refused to exchange prisoners, believing it would hasten the end of the war to burden the Confederacy with the feeding and guarding of Union prisoners, there were thousands of bluecoats at Andersonville, Georgia.
7 So he stayed and, gradually, unobtrusively, a large part of the burden of Tara shifted from Scarlett's shoulders to the bony shoulders of Will Benteen.
8 The old darkies went back to the plantations gladly, making a heavier burden than ever on the poverty-stricken planters who had not the heart to turn them out, but the young ones remained in Atlanta.
9 But when you went to Atlanta, shouldering a man's burden, I saw myself as much less than a man--much less, indeed, than a woman.
10 She took the handkerchief and wiped her damp cheeks, a little relief stealing over her as if she had shifted some of her burden to his broad shoulders.
11 It swelled in her bosom until it positively ached with pleasure, ached as with a burden of joyful, hot, unshed tears.
12 The additional burden of her guilt with Ashley and Melanie's defense was more than she could bear.
13 She would be ridding herself of her burden and laying it on the heart of an innocent and trusting person.
14 I'm too old to shoulder the burden of constant lies that go with living in polite disillusionment.
15 I think she's afraid of being a burden to me.
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1 He could not shoulder the burden alone.
2 Some would argue this was no burden in fact, and that she should count her blessings.
3 Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden.
4 None knows the weight of another's burden.
5 No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else.
6 I praise the nurse can use weak shoulders strong enough to carry a daughter, mother, wife's burden.
7 A donkey can carry a heavy burden.
8 A burden of one's choice is not felt.
9 I can't afford to bear the deep feeling is the burden, sweet prattle just happened to cash lies.
10 I can't afford to bear the deep feeling is the burden, sweet prattle.
11 Sometimes words cannot express the burden of our heart.
12 An ass endures his burden, but not more than his burden.
13 Such a high increase will impose an undue burden on the local tax payer.
14 Many hands make a burden lighter.
15 The manager carries the greatest burden of responsibility.