back-breaking
- a variation of backbreaking.
Example Sentences
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Still, it was an open secret that the car wash industry, which paid low wages for back-breaking labor, largely attracted people without legal status.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2025
Stokes launched into a back-breaking spell of bouncers to finally draw the swipe from Bumrah when 46 were required.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025
Namely the back-breaking interceptions, three of which he threw in the bowl game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
The cycle repeats itself hour after hour, a meditation in back-breaking labor, as Ogg navigates through his lines of crab pots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2025
The success of these hortatory campaigns has been mixed, at best, especially when it comes to the government’s highly unpopular efforts to lure city-bred people into back-breaking farm labor.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
