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Backbreaking meaning
Of work, very physically tiring.
Example sentences (12)
But the work is poorly paid, backbreaking, and low in status.
He said the Modi government was also guilty of imposing “backbreaking price rise, plunging the savings of ordinary people, while creating monumental economic disparity”.
It’s filthy, backbreaking and dangerous work.
Mr. Barqoushi’s wife, Sonia, and her sisters-in-law have resorted to backbreaking work on thriving big commercial farms north of Al-Ala, picking olives or harvesting wheat for $8 a day.
The Red Sox gave up five runs in the top of the ninth en route to a backbreaking 7-2 loss.
In fact, Fern doesn’t seem to mind the low-paid, backbreaking jobs she takes on—not even cleaning bathrooms at an RV park.
But on third-and-8 from the Saints 36, with 2 minutes 30 seconds remaining, a pass-interference call on Giants cornerback Donte Deayon gave New Orleans (3-1) a backbreaking first down.
On the backbreaking fourth goal by Anaheim, he pinched in as the fourth offensive threat, but the puck rolled off his stick and the Ducks went the other way to essentially close out the game.
Plowing and harvesting were backbreaking toil, but the peasant enjoyed anywhere from eight weeks to half the year off.
Despite this backbreaking workload, Robbins Landon and Jones (1988, 100) write: "Haydn's duties were crushing.
Lines traced over each woman’s back lead to the ground and then back up in a repetitive motion identical to their unending, backbreaking labor.
Puddling was backbreaking and extremely hot work.