backbreaking

Example Sentences

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This was not the smell of the burning that ran a city, the burning of a ceaseless engine kept running by backbreaking work, an engine unlike anything else in the world.

From Literature

This was not the smell of the burning that ran a city, the burning of a ceaseless engine kept running by backbreaking work, an engine unlike anything else in the world.

From Literature

But the backbreaking work left behind—often in agriculture or coal mines—was worse.

From The Wall Street Journal

Residents have now started the backbreaking task of cleaning away the thick layer of mud, and picking through the wreckage for anything that can be used.

From BBC

He also cut the hay at the end of summer, initially trying with a scythe - Poldark-style - but ultimately finding a small tractor does the trick in a less backbreaking way.

From BBC