back-breaking work

Examples (20)

• Digging ditches all day is back-breaking work.
• Farming before modern machinery was often back-breaking work.
• Building the pyramids involved years of back-breaking work for thousands of laborers.
• Moving all that furniture by hand was truly back-breaking work.
• He spent his youth doing back-breaking work on the family farm.
• The construction of ancient pyramids involved immense amounts of back-breaking work.
• Without modern machinery, harvesting the entire field will be back-breaking work.
• She complained about the back-breaking work of digging a new garden.
• Compared to sitting in an office, construction is considered back-breaking work.
• Many migrant laborers perform back-breaking work in the fields.
• I'm too old for that kind of back-breaking work now.
• Despite the back-breaking work, he found satisfaction in building his own house.
• She watched the miners engage in the daily grind of back-breaking work.
• The volunteers undertook the back-breaking work of clearing the debris after the storm.
• Years of back-breaking work in the mines had taken a toll on his health.
• Without proper tools, even simple tasks can become back-breaking work.
• Can you imagine doing such back-breaking work without any pay?
• His job as a coal miner was nothing short of back-breaking work.
• Doing back-breaking work from dawn until dusk was their only option for survival.
• I spent the entire weekend doing back-breaking work in the yard.