Sentence examples for backbreaking toil from inspiring English sources

He sees, instead, units of backbreaking toil.

It's money that, like all money, can be secured through backbreaking toil or pure happenstance.

"We were like birds at work building our own cage," reflects Antonio when, having exchanged backbreaking toil in the countryside for backbreaking toil in the city, he ends up doing backbreaking toil in a refugee camp.

Backbreaking toil earning neither money, status nor security – in Ghana it is clear that you are born a farmer, you don't become one.

Meanwhile, backbreaking toil both in the workplace and in the home was for the most part replaced by far less onerous employment.

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.

And while there are many of us who are uncomfortable with the idea that we are somehow "elite," the fact is that relative to those men and women who put us here through centuries of backbreaking labor and the millions more toiling across the country to earn a little of that privilege for themselves, that is exactly what we are.

As well as backbreaking mining toil, he carved chopsticks and toothpicks out of planks of wood until his hands were raw and assembled car seat covers that the prison exported to South Korea and Japan.

For these kids, education means a chance at a life that is not 14 hours a day of backbreaking labor, risking lives to leave families and toil as migrant laborers across the treacherous border; it means hope for a better future.

Loads of backbreaking labor involved, to say the least.

We like to drive around and admire the results of someone else's backbreaking labor.