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
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
The program was created to give them a shot at a secure retirement after a lifetime of what may have been backbreaking work.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2023
I can get maybe one- tenth of a cubic meter in through the airlock at a time, and it'll be backbreaking work to collect it.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
