Example Sentences

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But Roth is concerned that some patients may be so eager to escape the drudgeries of dialysis that they are willing to accept a sub-par kidney.

From Scientific American • Dec. 17, 2020

I loved these tales of going up in these famous fighters and bombers on test runs, of the camaraderie on base, even the drudgeries of guard duty or rushing to breakfast in the mess.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2020

Desks of some furloughed employees, whose job can include such drudgeries as helping their bosses work the copy machine, sit empty in the West Wing.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2019

“Welfare” evokes poverty as a trial of rote drudgeries.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2019

We tend to count the diseases conquered, the planets explored, the drudgeries banished, and to assert that the greater good is served by seeing things our way.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro