backbreaking

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

Everyone paid to see a pitcher intentionally put himself behind in the count, let a runner on base who would come around to score, and then give up a backbreaking grand slam.

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2025

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 • Oct. 30, 2025

“Targeting hardworking farmworkers and their families who have been doing the backbreaking work in the fields for decades is unjustified and unconscionable,” Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff said in their statement.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025

Then, on the twenty-third, the men harnessed themselves to the boats again and resumed the backbreaking haul across the ice.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong