menial labor
Example Sentences
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Some former conscripts often don’t get proper military training when they serve and instead are engaged in menial labor.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2022
Taiwan’s mandatory military service is often likened to a summer camp, where recruits spend more time doing menial labor than learning combat skills.
From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2022
Olga Budina, 35, worked in a computer store in her hometown outside Lviv, but with a child to support, she expects to turn to menial labor.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2022
In reality, it is a waystation for children to mature into adults whose options are more likely to be limited to menial labor or worse.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2020
With Geak toddling after us, Chou and I and the other children work in the gardens and do menial labor in the village.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
