How To Use effortful In A Sentence
- As characterized by Vargha-Khadem's team, the affected KE's speech is effortful, “sometimes agrammatical and often unintelligible” (Watkins et al. 2002: 453), and shows impairments not just in morphosyntax (e.g., regular plural and past tense endings) but also in the formation of irregular past tenses Innateness and Language
- The second sentence flows smoothly but contains the wonderfully effortful word strainedly. A Close Read
- No worse by day than the lusty priming of a neglected hand pump, at night the donkey's bray assumes the apocalyptic aural agony of hell's rusted gates being effortfully forced ajar.
- Not only a will-be expert must do effortful study, she must do it consistently for long, long period of time.
- What others do on automatic pilot becomes a tiresome, anxious, effortful task.
- This is a very uncomfortable, overdesigned space that seems effortfully oldfashioned. Times, Sunday Times
- Running was never effortful: it meant only freedom. Times, Sunday Times
- Mutual life insurance company pembroke up from his commiseration horrifyingly, the spatially of a anastigmatic cicadidae preservative circumscribed his penuchle a effortful windaus. Rational Review
- To the degree that this device contributes to the broader popular perception that ‘literature’ is pretentious, faddish, vague, eventless, effortful, and suffocatingly interior, quotation marks may not be quite as tiny as they appear on the page. 2008 November 18 « One-Minute Book Reviews
- They're opulent, suggestible and effortfully sophisticated, but more importantly, they are not just wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
