blood sweat and tears
Example Sentences
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It’s easier to marry the right person than marry the wrong person and, through blood, sweat and tears, attempt to turn him into the right person.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 6, 2025
“This was blood, sweat and tears and work and love, and it was transformed into just value for them,” Rogers said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025
"We are all massively proud, it's an accumulation of a lot of blood sweat and tears for her to get this far," he said.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024
He told me in October that he had raised over $700,000, but it took blood, sweat, and tears to get there.
From Slate • Nov. 5, 2024
Dating from the Crusades a thousand years ago, western civilization has been promoted, built up and carried forward by the blood, sweat and tears of credulous, hopeful, eager human beings.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott