Sentence examples for thankless work from inspiring English sources

As such, it can sometimes feel like thankless work.

Her son David told me that despite the years of thankless work, his parents were content.

A small thing, perhaps, but nonetheless notable considering his past distaste for putting in thankless work.

We wouldn't exactly be following in the footsteps of Edward Abbey, the great Desert Solitaire, but dogging greatness is thankless work anyway.

Or is he laughing up his sleeve as apoplectic fact-checkers throw themselves into the thankless work of disproving his absurdities?

She was used to praising thankless work as the right and good way, but what she was going to do without Jim Bakker's exhortation and encouragement she didn't know.

When I was a summer associate, I put up with doing a lot of thankless grunt work -- I know a lot of guys who are more entrepreneurial.

There is a growing argument that the Tottenham Hotspur midfielder has been England's best player in 2016, doing much of the thankless dirty work that passes by unnoticed.

The new seriousness is evident in not one but two NGOs they have set up, employing 10 people with countless more volunteers, and what they are trying to do is proper, committed, quite thankless, unglamorous work in trying to shine a light on the Russian penal system.

But the best politicians do the thankless, backbreaking work of shaking hands, kissing babies and sitting through endless hours of mind-numbing subcommittee meetings for the best reason: getting civil structures named after them.

With any luck, she'll soon be singing: "Darling, I love you, but give me Park Avenue!" Thankless Situation I work as a freelancer in the film industry.