Sentence examples for grim work from inspiring English sources
The grim work has taken a toll.
A grim work, it prompted no special applause.
This grim work became a classic, and a multimedia phenomenon.
This grim work in the sun and heat is done without any protective clothing or machinery.
But colonization was grim work in a hot, dry land, with the government reluctant to expend resources.
Grim, work-related deaths and ailments abound in Pancake's fiction: lungs bleed from coal dust; mine gas turns a man "blue as jeans"; another is killed by fragments of metal lodged in his brain.
I would think these fundamental issues need to be revisited before the government tacks on another day to an already grim working week.
Appleby dutifully describes the rather ugly forces that the quest for profit unleashed, from an enormous expansion of the African slave trade to the increasingly grim working conditions in factories.
After visiting a local library and learning more about the immigrants' grim working conditions, she decided to seek historical recognition for their efforts, which cost many of the workers their lives.
JOHANNESBURG — When 360,000 gold and coal miners walked off the job in South Africa in 1987, protesting the poor pay and grim working conditions of apartheid-era mines, a charismatic young man named Cyril Ramaphosa, the firebrand leader of the National Union of Mineworkers, led the charge.
