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Meanings of drudge in English
Synonyms
Examples for "labour"
Examples for "labour"
1
South African labour law requires clear formal processes for strikes and walk-outs.
2
Sunak's focus on the labour market is welcome given worrying survey data.
3
Italy's social security and labour taxes are among the highest in Europe.
4
Mr Blumenfeld said labour laws needed to offer more protection to workers.
5
The effects of the crisis on the labour market were relatively uneven.
1
The king toils; the priests toil; the powers of the world labor.
2
South African labor law requires clear formal processes for strikes and walk-outs.
3
We are in the land of the cheapest labor in the world.
4
Among other urgent government priorities were addressing drought, labor and economic problems.
5
His was the labor and worry; they gathered in the financial harvest.
1
Rob didn't know what to expect at the dig, following the 'accident'.
2
For example, we'll need to dig into this whole Kahverengi International matter.
3
Here it is; you may follow us while we dig it out:
4
Some of the survivors were compelled to dig graves for the seven.
5
I dig down looking for things that existed a long time ago.'
1
The common life-thelife of people-thedaily toil-the pangs and the struggles.
2
And then the toil and self-denial for the stocking and the tree
3
It had been completed only thirty years ago, after generations of toil.
4
The lily may grow; the man must fret and toil and spin.
5
To some breath control seems second nature; others must toil for it.
1
They grind their points; they stir poison; they swarm in the streets.
2
The 'two days before payday' grind would be easier, if not gone.
3
The walnut-crusher shifts gear into a final grind-into-mush setting: Capital Laundry Services?
4
Gottta love a man who knows the value of a good grind.
5
The mills of the gods in the Interior Department grind very slowly.
1
You know, in case TMZ is having a fag break or something.
2
It is late September at the fag end of the tourism season.
3
They said that the whole world would know he was a fag.
4
Albert dropped his fag and stood on it on the way in.
5
They smoked fag after fag, lighting the new ones on the butts.
1
Each morn that dawns I wake in travail and in woe, And
2
The world is in travail, and its agitation waxeth day by day.
3
The travail is already begun in you that will form the Christ.'
4
He eliminates it with stern effort and much travail of the spirit.
5
In such travail of soul, he who suffers through suffering is satisfied.
1
They tumbled and rolled to disappear into the churning moil of waters.
2
And were it so, who would strive and moil in this world?
3
Well, to be plain, out of the Stewart cark and moil!
4
Up from the stoop and cramp of daily moil-
5
And why should men toil and moil when they had been the masters of the world?
Usage of drudge in English
1
Many consider it drudge work beneath ladies & gentlemen of their stature.
2
The drudge had probably been affianced oftener than any woman in Bursley.
3
A poem on the miseries of a literary drudge begins thus promisingly:-
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Today with rural electrification the mountain woman ceases to be a drudge.
5
They think only of the tasks of a drudge or a char-boy.
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I am left to contemplate my childhood and drudge through its ugliness.
7
Yet this little bird is not altogether the soulless drudge he appears.
8
To do so seemed like making a drudge of some beautiful woman.
9
At home she was a little round-shouldered drudge in her mother's service.
10
Appetite is his lord, and reason his servant, and religion his drudge.
11
I dare say you'll turn out something nobler than a Cockney drudge.
12
I won't stay here and be a farm drudge all my life.
13
He's only a poor drudge in Braun's Sixth Avenue opium-joint and whisky-store.
14
I didn't try to make a housewife of her or a drudge.
15
I could have been a drudge, but I wasn't made for that.
16
I won't have to be the kitchen drudge Charlie made of me.
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