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UK
/hˈɜːkjʊlˌiən/
]
[ US /hɝkˈjuɫiən/ ]
[ US /hɝkˈjuɫiən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
displaying superhuman strength or power
herculean exertions -
extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules
a herculean task
How To Use herculean In A Sentence
- Is it naively idealistic to imagine a British prime minister taking on such a Herculean burden?
- Finally, because they were bred to be such Herculean workers, malamutes need daily exercise on a leash or in an enclosed area.
- We in San Diego go through Herculean efforts to shield our condors from human contact.
- She faces the herculean task of bringing up four children single-handedly.
- While performance enhancers can build a body to Herculean standards, they do not necessarily strengthen the heart within that body.
- He kept meticulous records of his expenditure in Africa and reading the six-page digest shows just what a herculean task remains to be faced.
- The ceilings of both rooms were to be calico, and a dozen or so of seams were to be oversewn for that, the strips of matting were to be joined together and bound into squares, and after that a herculean task undertaken: the making of a huge mosquito-netted dining-room, large enough to enclose the table and chairs, so as to ensure our meals in comfort -- for the flies, like the poor, were to be with us always. We of the Never-Never
- So to be able to concentrate on a single object and to describe it in all of its individual particularity seemed to them a Herculean feat.
- Making that kind of space for young people does not require a Herculean effort.
- What they're doing they say is proceeding with what they call a herculean effort to prepare for the upcoming court battles and they're also getting on with the business of forming a government. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Florida Supreme Court to Expedite Examination of Gore Appeal; Gore's Hopes for Presidency Begin to Fade - December 5, 2000