back-breaking toil

Examples (20)

• The pyramids were built through years of back-breaking toil by thousands of workers.
• Farmers often endure back-breaking toil in the fields during harvest season.
• He spent his life engaged in the back-breaking toil of farming before the invention of modern machinery.
• The construction of the ancient pyramids required unimaginable back-breaking toil.
• After a decade of back-breaking toil in the mines, he had little to show for it.
• After decades of back-breaking toil, his body was worn out but his spirit remained strong.
• The novel vividly describes the back-breaking toil of the early pioneers.
• She escaped a life of back-breaking toil by pursuing higher education.
• Without investment in automation, the industry will continue to rely on manual, back-breaking toil.
• Despite the back-breaking toil, the community worked together to build the new school.
• She exchanged a life of comfort for the back-breaking toil of a homesteader, but she found happiness in it.
• Modern machinery has significantly reduced the need for such back-breaking toil in agriculture.
• His health suffered greatly from the constant back-breaking toil on the construction site.
• His hands bore the marks of a lifetime of back-breaking toil and manual labor.
• Many great achievements in history were the result of unimaginable back-breaking toil.
• The early pioneers faced relentless back-breaking toil to carve out a living from the land.
• The study examines the socioeconomic impact of transitioning from back-breaking toil to skilled labor.
• They hoped their children would never have to experience such back-breaking toil.
• Their reward for decades of back-breaking toil was a small, meager pension.
• The artist's intricate sculpture was the result of months of meticulous and back-breaking toil.