backbreaking
Example Sentences
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But the backbreaking work left behind—often in agriculture or coal mines—was worse.
The Phoenix Suns guard drained a backbreaking three-pointer in the third quarter to put away the Australians’ best rally attempt.
From Washington Post
The backbreaking work of harvesting potatoes in the steep hills is still the main way families such as Liez Quispe’s survive.
From Washington Post
Signs of the toxic and backbreaking work the enslaved had to do at the primitive ironmaking site emerged.
From Washington Post
If the retail giant wants to keep shortening delivery times, maybe, instead of demanding an ever more frenzied, backbreaking pace from the current workforce, it should bring in reinforcements – additional employees.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
