hard labor
Example Sentences
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After the war, Faÿ was sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor, but he escaped from prison in 1951 dressed in ecclesiastical costume, with the help of—here one reaches for the phrase “incredible but true”—Toklas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
“It’s the first job I’ve had where I didn’t feel like it’s hard, hard labor or pressure,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025
As a result, the trial judge denied Griner’s request for bail or house arrest, instead sentencing her to nine years of hard labor.
From Slate • May 4, 2024
Planting seedlings is hard labor, and recruiting people to do it, especially on remote, rugged mountains, is harder than it was during the Great Depression.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024
She was beginning to see subtle differences in how each spirit moved—the clenching of shadowy fists on an upward flush into the sky, the curve of a spine from a life of hard labor.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
