backbreaking work
Example Sentences
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But the backbreaking work left behind—often in agriculture or coal mines—was worse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
From quarry workers to weavers, welders to tailors, the pictures highlight the diverse, backbreaking work undertaken by the estimated 400 million labourers in India.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025
We did a lot of backbreaking work, and he rode around on the tractor.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024
Aubrey Moya joined the great resignation about a year and a half ago, when she decided she had had enough of the low wages and backbreaking work of waiting tables.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
It was hard, backbreaking work to stand bent over all day.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
