Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.
1 New York then added two backbreaking goals late in the second period.
2 The going was harder now; it was backbreaking work pulling the line.
3 He'd take a bit of marching over that backbreaking work any time.
4 It was a backbreaking job, and the real work hadn't even begun.
5 Tommy wondered, too, whether his father's backbreaking work was hurting his golf.
6 A day of drama, a day of backbreaking climbs and flat-out racing.
7 His hands cover his face as he busts out in backbreaking sobs.
8 Much of the work was drudgery; most of it was backbreaking and laborious.
9 Farming is backbreaking work, but at least it is honest labor.
10 It's easy to forget that all this beauty is built on backbreaking labour.
11 It was backbreaking work-loavesweigh more than you'd think when packed tightly together.
12 Denton-Hurst describes her periods as heavy and messy with backbreaking cramps.
13 Migrants, who do low-paying, backbreaking jobs across the country, face widespread exploitation and discrimination.
14 It was still either the mill, the backbreaking uncertainty of the fields, or surrender.
15 Everything had to go over the walls, a backbreaking task.
16 A son who could help with backbreaking work, a daughter who could keep the house.
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