menial labor
Example Sentences
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Some former conscripts often don’t get proper military training when they serve and instead are engaged in menial labor.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2022
In reality, it is a waystation for children to mature into adults whose options are more likely to be limited to menial labor or worse.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2020
Cerritos, handling much of the menial labor that keeps a starship running while the bridge crew gets to have all the fun you see in most other Star Trek shows.
From The Verge • Aug. 6, 2020
Many of their classmates are struggling, selling vegetables or doing menial labor.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2018
With Geak toddling after us, Chou and I and the other children work in the gardens and do menial labor in the village.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
