hard labour

Examples (10)

• He was sentenced to four years' hard labour for his crime.
• The judge condemned the traitor to a lifetime of hard labour.
• In the 19th century, many convicts were transported to perform hard labour in penal colonies.
• The sentence of hard labour involved breaking rocks in a quarry.
• After ten years of hard labour, his spirit was completely broken.
• The law prescribed twenty years of hard labour as a punishment for armed robbery.
• Many countries have now abolished the cruel and unusual punishment of hard labour.
• The political prisoners faced either execution or a long sentence of hard labour.
• His punishment was commuted from a death sentence to life with hard labour.
• The prisoners endured grueling conditions under the sentence of hard labour.