grunt work

Example Sentences

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He said “I was doing all the grunt work that GAs do. But in addition to that, I ran my own room. I ran meetings. I recruited an area in Minnesota. So it was huge. It was a big-time crash course in being a college football coach.”

From Seattle Times

Their shared backgrounds and attributes are now reflected in their store, where Ms. Thorpe oversees the paperwork and operations while her husband handles logistics, events and what he calls grunt work.

From New York Times

When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law last year, many saw it as a solution to the long-running injustice of letting prisoners — most of them Black and Latino — do grunt work for slave wages in state fire camps, and then denying them firefighting jobs with proper pay and benefits upon their release.

From Los Angeles Times

One difference may be that, whereas Ms. Stewart has the means to employ armies in executing her vision, Mr. Spitzmiller and his fiancé, Anthony Bellomo, 42, a landscape architect, do most of the grunt work themselves.

From New York Times

“Doing grunt work,” Grice says.

From Washington Times