The word 'backbreaking' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is very difficult or exhausting to do. For example, "The backbreaking work done by the farmhands was grueling, but it had to be done."
Top executives were jettisoned, huge fines imposed, and the pair were hit with portfolio caps and higher capital requirements.The journey to redemption has been backbreaking.
Digging through frozen piles of litter with only an ice axe and a sack is backbreaking and unprofitable.
The factory is run by a sleazy white guy (Haynes Thigpen), and the work is backbreaking, so Olga is furious when Reina encourages her innocent niece Carmen Xochitl Romeroo), fresh from a traumatic crossing into America, to get a job there.
Two games later, he finished Detroit with a variety of backbreaking shots down the stretch, including a ludicrous 15-foot lefty banker that had to be seen to be believed.
And there, in his uneasy bed, the Gudgers, as they rose for another day of backbreaking labor, found him — their recording angel, ready to observe and write again.
The fines are backbreaking: the law is written in such a way as to drive anyone who is convicted into poverty.
So he'd thank Mr. Edd and return to his shack with a few dollars to show for a year's worth of backbreaking toil. 1 2 Next Page » David Oshinsky, a frequent contributorto the Book Review, is the author of "Polio: An American Story," which won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2006.
To this day tourist hotels are built so as to take in views of such fields, ignoring the reality that rice farming is backbreaking labor.
Loads of backbreaking labor involved, to say the least.
Four Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee sided with Republicans on Thursday to temporarily block new rules protecting seasonal foreign workers who often perform backbreaking labor at low wages.
ENGLAND, Ark .— As a construction worker and logger, Bryan L. Mashburn does what he describes as "backbreaking, muscle-pulling work," laying concrete foundations for water towers and felling 3,000-pound 3,000-pound
