Sentence examples for it is backbreaking from inspiring English sources
It is backbreaking work.Is it also pointless?
And small wonder, too: it is backbreaking labour (a Georgia field worker who I interviewed for a previous piece an undocumented immigrant who had been picking onions in Vidalia for 18 years—said that in the entire time he had been working in the fields he had never worked with a white or black person only with other Latinos).
An elderly peasant woman recalls the old days, when, as in Millet's painting, gleaning was a communal activity, festive and sociable even as it was backbreaking.
But work is just work, even when it's backbreaking and wicked.
"It's backbreaking stuff, I can tell you," he says of his passion.
It was backbreaking work, but they make a good team, Mark and Tracey.
It was backbreaking work, but to this day a great deal of Europe's tourist trade is centered on visitors to these same pyramids.
It was backbreaking, spirit-sucking work, and the book is a litany of the horticultural errors that can cripple a choice crop of kush.
It was backbreaking work for a five-year-old -- but it was totally worth it.
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