Sentence examples for tedious and back-breaking from inspiring English sources

Their tasks are tedious and back-breaking.

Leg-hold and back-breaking traps truly can become a thing of the past.

The days of drought and back-breaking labour in the fields are passing.

Four of them died, and many others were permanently injured by the horrific winter weather and back-breaking pace.

This is a very condensed treatment on a very long and back-breaking project.

The reason for this change was a natural and predictable back-breaking straw.

So was chattel slavery and the back-breaking manual labor that kept these massive plantations thriving.

Minimum tillage systems also offer great hope to check soil erosion, conserve moisture, and reduce the back-breaking drudgery of hand weeding and land preparation.

Duhon played suffocating defense and buried three back-breaking 3-pointers.

But filling vans with paper and scrap metal can be back-breaking work and, apparently, not very lucrative either.

When the family refuse to go, she takes off alone to her friend's ashram in Pondicherry, where back-breaking yoga sessions and tedious communal meditation rapidly segue into something more sinister.