Sentence examples for a day's labor from inspiring English sources

A Day's Labor for $100 A white man pulled up in a big white truck.

WITH the weight of a day's labor in their step, they trudged along the baked Bronx pavement, through the evening heat.

In exchange for cash earned from a day's labor, she agrees to help him locate Diego, who might live on one of several streets with the same number.

Her daughter's evening jogs also ended because her daughter stopped jogging to avoid the men coming home from a day's labor.

Hence, they betake themselves to Bulgaria, where a man can be made to deliver a day's labor for $10, where $50 will purchase consent to have a head shaven or to strip naked and play a corpse.

And the startling takeover price per employee shows, in the extreme, how the value investors place on a day's labor can vary so dramatically in today's economy.

The biggest gaffe is the discordant performance of Mr. McDermott, whose Wild Bill is a dewy modern teenager who doesn't seem to have done a day's farm labor in his life.

As a husband, he proves to be a grouch and a layabout, spending his time on the front porch listening to his cherished transistor radio while Darlene, after a day's backbreaking labor in the sugar cane fields, cooks and keeps house.

All of that is for the privilege of serving as a backdrop (and for a hundred dollars for a day's drudgerous labor).

After a day's hard labor, that sense of urgency has become heightened.

"There are so many Syrians here in Lebanon now that many Lebanese are offering as little as $7 for a day's manual labor," says Yasser Al-Hassan, who hails from the town of Mehardeh in Homs province.