It was a season of severe trial, not a little increased by his father's absence, and the impossibility of his reaching home until this sweet child must be for ever removed from his sight.
December had been throughout a month of severe trial to Washington; during which he saw his army dropping away piece-meal before his eyes.
It was, indeed, a severe trial of strength, skill, and nerve power which lay before these brave colonials.
It was, in the first place, a severe trial of strength and nerve-power to remain in the air so long before the Zeppelins arrived.
Apart from the actual fighting it was a severe trial of strength, nerve, and endurance to stay for any length of time in the front system of trenches at all.
The mould is in two parts, into each of which the clay is pressed.
To be left in solitude and darkness on this blood-stained heath, with the prospect of his own certain death before his eyes, and without any to comfort him in his last agony, must indeed have been a severe trial to his fortitude.
But I confess with shame, we showed a great want of nerve in the early part of the day, although to any troops the occasion must have been one of severe trial.
For three days I was under a severe trial or burden, which became heavier and heavier until it was unbearable.
At the time I broke the news to Mother, she was going through a severe trial.
For about two weeks God had been impressing me that I was going to have a severe trial, at the same time bringing to me these comforting words: "I will go with you through it.
To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "severe trial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
