backbreaking work
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
I really do love it in a sick way because it’s hard, backbreaking work to do — showrunning and executive producing and fighting for every story and all of that.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024
Aubrey Moya joined the great resignation about a year and a half ago, when she decided she had had enough of the low wages and backbreaking work of waiting tables.
From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2023
Either way, it can be backbreaking work at times.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2022
It was hard, backbreaking work to stand bent over all day.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
