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

“Targeting hardworking farmworkers and their families who have been doing the backbreaking work in the fields for decades is unjustified and unconscionable,” Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff said in their statement.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025

Is there a way to minimize a weed problem without hours of backbreaking work?

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 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

But after three days of backbreaking work, she was finally adjusting to life at sea, and today she was going to see the book again.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee