DIFFICULTY in a Sentence

Learn DIFFICULTY 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.
292 example sentences for DIFFICULTY, such as:
1. The first step is the only difficulty.
2. The bank is in difficulty / difficulties.
3. With some difficulty Muriel spelt it out.
4. The friend is known in the time of difficulty.
5. He finally solved the difficulty of transportation.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DIFFICULTY
difficulty
 n.  an effort that is inconvenient
 n.  a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  The first difficulty which we had to contend with was the finding of this American's antecedents.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3  He had hardly started, however, before he realized the difficulty which faced him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
4  Many a man, however vindictive, would have abandoned all thought of revenge in the face of such a difficulty, but Jefferson Hope never faltered for a moment.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
5  But the pigs were so clever that they could think of a way round every difficulty.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
6  With some difficulty Muriel spelt it out.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
7  In any case he had no difficulty in proving to the other animals that they were NOT in reality short of food, whatever the appearances might be.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
8  Squealer was so fat that he could with difficulty see out of his eyes.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
9  Isa supplied the first words that came into her head by way of helping her husband out of his difficulty.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
10  I should have no power of keeping you against his wish, and he would have no difficulty, at any time, in finding Mr. Thomas Gradgrind of Coketown.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
11  This was no longer matter of so much difficulty as formerly.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  She locked the door behind her, and Rebecca might hear her curse every step for its steepness, as slowly and with difficulty she descended the turret-stair.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Cedric, with some difficulty, compelled himself to make obeisance to the haughty Baron, who returned his courtesy with a slight inclination of the head.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  Meantime the prisoners found no difficulty in making their escape into the anteroom, and from thence into the court of the castle, which was now the last scene of contest.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
15  He said I ought to have done it before; that may be a difficulty.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
Example Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1  He mustered up enough courage to attack the difficulty.
2  If you have difficulty sleeping at night, avoid taking catnaps during the day.
3  The bank is in difficulty / difficulties.
4  The mountain track is negotiable, but only with difficulty.
5  I'm having difficulty using my video editing equipment and can't fathom out the various connections.
6  Experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
7  None of us should ever underestimate the degree of difficulty women face in career advancement.
8  The first step is to collect solid data that define which students have difficulty completing school assignments.
9  A minority administration should face little difficulty winning Liberal Democrat support for similar objectives.
10  We hope the difficulty can be solved by getting the two sides together to discuss the issues.
11  I have difficulty dealing with the abstract - let's discuss particular cases.
12  He finally solved the difficulty of transportation.
13  The first step is the only difficulty.
14  The friend is known in the time of difficulty.
15  We had enormous difficulty in getting hold of the right equipment.