backbreaking
IPA: bˈækbreɪkɪŋ
adjective
- (figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.
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Examples of "backbreaking" in Sentences
- They lived in constant and backbreaking poverty.
- They had to go through the backbreaking process.
- This makes harvesting clams a backbreaking task.
- The task required for us was backbreaking indeed.
- It was backbreaking labor that went on day and night.
- Muslim populations could avoid such backbreaking work.
- Irrigation was and continues to be backbreaking hard work.
- Many walked off the land after years of backbreaking work.
- He did not want to experience the backbreaking feeling at all.
- They had taken on a job that is accurately described as backbreaking.
- He is harassed by the guards and given backbreaking work as punishment.
- The thing that tipped it into "backbreaking" was the 5 pound roll of wrapping paper I slid into the basket at the last minute!
- When you put that kind of backbreaking work into changing the narrative of American history -- as Russert and the others did -- you expect to see results from it.
- To create intrigue and start a conversation amongst city folk stimulating awareness about where veggies come from and the men and women who engage in backbreaking work to grow them.
- But my goal as an interviewer is to steer them off the track, ideally through questions that the others arenât likely to ask probably because most journalists donât even bother to read the books or do the kind of backbreaking research that I do…….
- People marvel that anyone could ever have done it at all, and describe the work as "drudgery" and "backbreaking" - which may be true - the guys digging the outhouses may well have hated it, and may well have preferred their new jobs, unloading pallets at Walmart to digging outhouses.
- The slim, handsome woman vividly recalls the backbreaking work from sunrise to sunset clearing forests, digging irrigation canals and planting rice; hunting for frogs, rats and snakes to eat; seeing corpses piled high on oxcarts rumbling off to mass graves; her son dying on a garbage heap as he rummaged for fish bones to eat.