backbreaking

Her new "husband" communicated with her via hand gestures that he wanted her to do the backbreaking farm work and all the household chores.

When it came time to help with the backbreaking farm chores , he would be found reading a book .

Sheep shearing is often a backbreaking job, where thousands of kilograms of sheep meat are shifted every day .

backbreaking: Demanding great exertion, especially physical exertion; arduous and exhausting.

Their lack of water was not for want of backbreaking work in trying to find the stuff.

Others have tried similar programs. But, we've come a long way since the backbreaking work of the 1920s.

After sleepless nights and long hours of backbreaking work, the prisoners were forced outside to attend roll-calls which lasted for hours.

This kind of product, the heavy overnight can fix, backbreaking, dynamic operation to just go.

The schedule is backbreaking and constantly shifting.

Buffett was horrified that he performed such backbreaking work only to earn pennies an hour.

Freelancer is a backbreaking Chongqing stick-man; the difference is that he hardly breaks a sweat even in a highly tiring state.

Workers get cash, no benefits for backbreaking work, Radio-Canada finds.

It was tiring and backbreaking work. I sweat a lot, dirtied my glasses and watch.

But the real reason was the backbreaking burden that the colonial masters imposed on the people for over 200 years.

Cleaning the bathtub is a backbreaking chore for me.

The hours are long. The work is dirty and backbreaking.

That's backbreaking work and may be too much for us.

To get these he needs a regular paying job that doesn't require backbreaking work in the fields.