How to Use backbreaking in a Sentence

backbreaking

adjective

• During the sawmill days of summer and the backbreaking task of winter logging, lumberjacks may find their work a chore and a bore.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
• On fourth and 1, though, Dorance Armstrong jumped offside, giving the Mountaineers a first down that led to a backbreaking touchdown two plays later.
  — Jesse Newell, kansascity, 23 Sep. 2017
• But groundbreaking science can come at a backbreaking price.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2017
• The backbreaking restoration work earns him sympathy, as does his first exposure to the slashing winds of the region’s infamous mistral.
  — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
• Unable to afford any other kind of fishing, Theophile ended up going into the nearby cane fields, taking the backbreaking work of processing sugar.
  — Alec Jacobson, National Geographic, 3 May 2019
• Some have been pushed from their homes because of violence, or made to perform backbreaking work in dangerous environments, just to help their families survive.
  — Jill Biden and Carolyn Miles, CNN, 31 May 2017
• For decades, agriculture in California has relied on immigrant workers, many of them here without legal status, for its most backbreaking tasks.
  — latimes.com, 4 Jan. 2018
• Performed a cappella, the songs spin tales of mythologically mean prison guards, and loves and lives lost, and the backbreaking purgatory of unendingly repetitive physical tasks.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
• Tiny homes are popular, especially because clearing larger lots is such a backbreaking process: Aside from having to gouge out holes for septic systems, homeowners must constantly battle back the jungle that closes in, fire ants in tow.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 17 May 2018

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