Sentence examples for doing physical labour from inspiring English sources

Painted in 1849, The Stone-Breakers is a realistic rendering of two figures doing physical labour in a barren rural setting.

In his late years Michelangelo was less involved with sculpture and, along with painting and poetry, more with architecture, an area in which he did not have to do physical labour.

They lived like cavemen: they didn't see a roof the whole time, took care of their sanitary waste, learned survival skills and did physical labour; some cut off their hair because they couldn't bathe.

You could do physical labour, which is valued more than money a lot of times.

Lang's memories of Soviet womanhood include gluing soles on sandals as a teenager, and watching women in factories doing heavy physical labour.

Take the introduction to the books, a lovely little essay titled "The Birth of My Kitchen-Table Fiction", which provides him with the opportunity to rehearse the oft-told story of how he became a novelist, after leaving university, getting married, running a jazz bar and doing "hard physical labour".

What steam power did for physical labour, AI could do for mental labour.

(Though anyone who actually does hard physical labour might be surprised to read that in Murakami's case this consisted of making sandwiches and cocktails).

As expressed by the women in this study, the women of the older generations did hard physical labour, which increased their physical strength as well as their pain threshold.

Other participants connected the enactment of this kind of 'tough' masculinity to the heavily industrialised city that Glasgow once was, where 'men used to do tough physical labour' (Sean, 47, Student Group).

Do physical characteristics matter?