Meanings of gruel work in English

If only gruelling work culture were going out of fashion.

Disgruntled MyCiti bus drivers complain of having to operate unsafe busses in gruelling working conditions.

His new recruits include Mayer, who said the gruelling work nearly killed him in the first week.

Cleaning the dongas, where FIFO workers return to sleep after 12 hours in a sweaty mine, is particularly gruelling work.

How can a charity-backed T-shirt come from a dismal factory where staff are abused and do gruelling work for low pay?

It's gruelling work typically done at night or in the pre-dawn hours before high tide, when elvers are washed up the river mouth.

With all that gruelling work recovering from a torn cruciate ligament behind him, Khedira has played with relish and authority in the Germany midfield.

This gruelling work earns him about €500 a month, or about five times what he made in his native Senegal as a builder.