rigor

In a sentence

Six example sentences with rigor, each labelled with its topic.

• The rigors of the crossing surprised them: three days of sleet, no dry clothing, and a stove that refused to light.

  Travel

• Few beginners expect the rigor of the first month, when sore legs and early alarms drive half of them away.

  Fitness

• Settlers wrote home about the rigor of that winter, when the wells froze solid and flour had to be rationed.

  History

• The rigors of an eighty-two game season wear down even the youngest legs by the middle of March.

  Basketball

• The rigors of a forty-city tour showed in the singer's voice by the final week of concerts.

  Music

• Few plants survive the rigors of the high desert, where nights freeze and days bake the same rock.

  Environment

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