Sentence examples for back-breaking from inspiring English sources

"back-breaking" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe a task or situation that is difficult, exhausting, or laborious. For example, "Working on this construction site is back-breaking work."

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Back-breaking labour has been reduced.

Stephen Jackson followed with 2, back-breaking 3-pointers.

Homework will be uploaded rather than carried in back-breaking backpacks.

Most rural people are destitute: farm labourers earn 80 cents for a day's back-breaking work.

But several other children are engaged in the same back-breaking labour as their parents.

And you don't have to stuff them into back-breaking boxes when you move house.

"I was sleeping in my room after a day of back-breaking housework.

It's very, very hot; there's no water to drink and it's back-breaking.

Back-breaking, mind-numbing professionalism that happened before and after work and during lunch breaks.

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Same plume, same huge grey-black back breaking the surface, turning like a slow, dull bandsaw.

How are you going to get people to still do back breaking labor?

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