"crushing work" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a particularly difficult or tedious task, especially one that requires a lot of effort to complete. For example, "Having to work an extra four hours a day on top of my regular job has been crushing work."
Depression, anxiety and crushing work schedules, plus the stress and discomfort of crowded apartments, make it hard for parents to provide adequate nurturing.
But according to the men and women I've interviewed for Field Report, this sense of connection with and appreciation by the people around them makes the crushing work and razor-thin margins worth it.
In a twist of fate, it's the Boomer children of these G.I.s who came of age amid this affluence who later ushered in today's crushing work ethic.
Being an out, gay Republican is crushing work.
If not literally, then they kind of run away by creating crushing work deadlines and hanging out with their friends rather than going home.
It is hard not to read into these dense, crushing works the woeful details of Vierne's life.
Behind the worn doors of the building at 6 Fredry, the foot soldiers of Solidarity, the opposition movement that would not be crushed, work to reshape the Poland they now lead.
The Supreme Court crushed working women over this past term.
One look at "Garden Labour," a 19th-century English stoneware sculpture, left, and suddenly weeding the garden looks like bone-crushing work.
On the crowded platform, Celia Boyle said she could see only one way to reduce the crush: "Work from home".
The story takes place in Boston, but this textureless place could be Any City, U.S.A., just as the lab where Paul and his crush work could be any sterile office.
