manual labor
Example Sentences
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Rice farmer Rodel Malinay has shifted to an “on-call” labor system, instead of having three to five laborers working daily, and does more manual labor himself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
Bamberger continued to spend his time doing manual labor on the ranch well into his 90s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
Samaan had offered the man a job at one point, but he said a bad knee left him unable to do necessary manual labor, like refilling shelves or coolers.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2025
Gluesenkamp Perez’s roundabout response — about respecting people who do manual labor, building community — petered out in a small sigh.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2024
There they do the hard manual labor of loading and unloading shipments onto trucks.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
