The phrase "a hard labor" is not correct in standard English; it should be "hard labor" without the article "a." You can use "hard labor" to refer to physically demanding work or tasks that require significant effort and endurance.
Example: "After a long day of hard labor in the fields, the workers were exhausted and ready to rest."
Alternatives: "difficult work" or "strenuous labor."
"He kept saying: 'It's a hard labor market.
"It's a hard labor kind of thing," Glen Richards said of the life of a commercial fisherman.
Her baby, Alexander, is born after a hard labor and delivery, followed by the nightmarish swoon of the first months' sleeplessness and troubled nursing.
He fears for his life, and with good reason: it's 1945, and Leo is a gay ethnic German living in Romania, about to be packed off to a hard labor camp in Ukraine to help "rebuild" the Soviet Union.
Putting together "The Poor Itch" for a public performance has clearly been a hard labor of love for the artists involved, and they have succeeded in infusing a cobbled-together text with authentic theatricality.
He was charged with subversion and given a hard labor life sentence in 2015.
"It's a hard, labor-intensive business with long hours," he said, "and you don't find a lot of people who want to work past 6".
Though the lifestyle has changed for Amish families like the Mullets, their food is still based on the starch-heavy, butter-rich meals of a hard laboring, agricultural past.
One of the two cheery salesclerks offered to help me find something with a particular catchphrase, though to ask for that felt like handing down a hard-labor sentence, or requesting she track down the current addresses and Social Security numbers of my kindergarten classmates.
The sturdy sunflower does not shrink from a little "hard labor, too," Ms. Greig added.
And the Chinese government, which last year sentenced a woman to a year of hard labor for a sarcastic three-word tweet, appears to suffer from an acute case of humor deficiency.
