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"Burden" in a Sentence (26 examples)
Education should not be a burden on the parents as well as on the children.
Supporting his family was a great burden for him.
Running the store is becoming a burden to him.
That responsibility is a burden to him.
The trainee could hardly bear the burden of the task.
The people groaned under the burden of heavy taxation.
My dish-washing duties are a heavy burden.
I don't want to burden you with my troubles.
The employees share the burden of toil.
The boy was fed up with being treated as a burden.
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I know that this was Life,—the track Whereon with equal feet we fared; And then, as now, the day prepared The daily burden for the back.
There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens.
c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift, The Dean's Complaint Translated and Answered Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, / To all my friends a burden grown.
a ship of a hundred tons burden
"[…] The quay is upwards of 1,000 feet in length, and capable of accommodating more than 100 sail of traders; and there are generally a considerable number of vessels of from 40 to 300 tons burden, from various parts of the world, waiting to receive their cargoes."
A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds.
… that bore thee at a burden two fair sons.
to burden a nation with taxes
My burdened heart would break.
This ſtraunge vnwelcome and vnhappie newes, […] Burdens my heart, and interrupts my ſleepe, […]
For I meane not that other men bee eaſed, and you burthened: […]
He was beginning to forget his burdening, despairing mood of a short while ago.
Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.
As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only is limited to lyric verse, but depends for its impression upon the force of monotone - both in sound and thought.
BURDEN in some musical instruments, the Drone or Bass, and the pipe or string that plays it
the burden of the argument
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