Adjective : a backbreaking job. From Dictionary.com.
The thing that tipped it into "backbreaking" was the 5 pound roll of wrapping paper I slid into the basket at the last minute!. From Wordnik.com. [hello hand truck, hello dolly] Reference
Thompson did the kind of backbreaking work that most Americans wouldn't think of doing. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Liss pointed to a "backbreaking" low post move by Shawn Stephan PO '11 as one of the important moments of the second half. From Wordnik.com. [The Student Life Front Page News RSS Feed] Reference
Witold Pilecki was assigned to backbreaking labor. From Wordnik.com. [Meet The Man Who Sneaked Into Auschwitz] Reference
Child labor can be as backbreaking as collecting rocks. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2006] Reference
Hours, days and weeks of backbreaking, heart-rending work. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2001] Reference
To further eliminate backbreaking work, consider raised beds. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening tools to help keep you active] Reference
COOPER: And that is backbreaking work, building the sandbags. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2008] Reference
None of these chores are backbreaking, time-consuming burdens. From Wordnik.com. [Jenna Woginrich: A Beginner's Guide to City Chickens] Reference
And since it's a backbreaking job, identify your successor earlier. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2008] Reference
And what backbreaking work for people the laborers would never meet. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Zanesville On Obama's Faith-Based Initiatives: Thanks But No Thanks] Reference
First: the most backbreaking and bloody work fell to the brown-skinned. From Wordnik.com. [Brown Against Brown] Reference
It was heavy and backbreaking work that had used to exhaust even Eurwyn. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
He did the backbreaking work just so that he could take care of his family. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2009] Reference
His life appeared to be nothing more than backbreaking labor and slow starvation. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Nickolas: Did McCain Steal His "Cross in the Dirt" Story at the Saddleback Forum From Solzhenitsyn?] Reference
Any job in the city may seem better than backbreaking labor in sun-scorched fields. From Wordnik.com. [Wade Davis: For a Global Declaration of Interdependence] Reference
The work was less backbreaking and more challenging, if not physically, then cerebrally. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
Marged was doing another backbreaking round of the field that would be sown to wheat soon. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
Today's aspirants face a bleaker picture: 40-year mortgages and backbreaking monthly payments. From Wordnik.com. [Sunset on the Liffey?] Reference
Prisoners did the heavy labour of the road building, the backbreaking shovel, axe and saw work. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
The life of farming families is still extremely poor, filled with backbreaking labor and scavenging for wood. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Hill: China and the Long Road Ahead] Reference
Farming rice was backbreaking, alligators, snakes and swamp fever everywhere, sunup to sundown six days a week. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2009] Reference
They live in subpar conditions -- often unheated trailers or plastic tarp tents -- and work backbreaking hours. From Wordnik.com. [Megan Shank: The Problem with Migrant Workers] Reference
And also, very frankly, he's tired; it's a backbreaking job and he really does want to spend more time with his family. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2004] Reference
It costs more to ferret out stocks in less developed markets, and some funds use that excuse to charge backbreaking fees. From Wordnik.com. [Capital Ideas] Reference
His great sorrow is the fact that TunFaire is a city already hagridden by a backbreaking oversupply of priests and religions. From Wordnik.com. [Angry Lead Skies]
If our tasks had been monotonous before the arrival of the Anakuklesis, then they became backbreaking now that we had visitors. From Wordnik.com. [A King of Infinite Space]
Even so, this would have been better than the endless, senseless, backbreaking labor they subjected her to except for one thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
In the past, it was Italians or Irish fleeing poverty at home and working backbreaking hours and jobs for budget-breaking wages. From Wordnik.com. [Wayne Trujillo: Immigration Reform's Curtain Call: A Hollywood Happy Ending] Reference
I thank Garry Mauro, the Texas Land Commissioner, who has been my friend for more than 20 years, for his backbreaking work on this. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Remarks At Federal Fleet Conversion Event] Reference
The Los Angeles native recalls telling his U. S.-born father, one of 18 children, how much he disliked the backbreaking menial labor. From Wordnik.com. [TWO AMERICAS?] Reference
Our son knows exactly who to go to when he's lost his favorite Babar book (mom) or wants to play a backbreaking game of airplane (dad). From Wordnik.com. [The ‘New Dad’? Give Me a Break.] Reference
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