hard labor

Example Sentences

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It takes sustained hard labor.

From The Wall Street Journal

While studying at what would become the University of Manchester, he stole money from fellow classmates, was dismissed from the school and then sentenced to a month of hard labor in a local jail.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

But he was “cut to the bone with hard labor,” wrote Carl Van Doren, one of his biographers, and his “Autobiography” promoted the belief that any American, through diligent labor and discipline, could prosper and advance and keep reinventing himself.

From The Wall Street Journal

For seven years, Loomis was held captive in Joe Turner’s chain gang, abducted for being Black, forced into hard labor and separated from his wife, whom he has been searching for since his release.

From Los Angeles Times