hard labor
Example Sentences
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Plus, there was no getting around the fact that Ernesto was getting older, less desirable for hard labor.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026
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
“I wanted to almost proclaim the beauty that is inherent in the really hard labor that mostly migrant workers do,” says Garcia.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025
At first condemned to hard labor, Wenjie catches the eye of the architects of a nearby scientific project run by the government.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024
His hands were callused from the work he’d done at the salt factory, and he was afraid the hard labor had made his fingers clumsy.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
