hard labour
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Kateryna, who lives in Aylesbury, says a doctor helped her with a "hard labour".
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
Her husband Nurul, who's 22, manages to pick up just a few days of work a month, doing hard labour or cleaning the stinky sewers, but most days he's forced to sit at home.
From BBC ● May 15, 2023
He was the party leader in the politically significant city of Yanan, which Mao Zedong used as the party's headquarters during World War Two and where Xi spent seven years of hard labour.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2022
She is being held in solitary confinement and was found guilty of electoral fraud on Friday and sentenced to three more years in jail with hard labour.
From Reuters ● Sep. 5, 2022
They were content to eat the results of all this hard labour, but they were unwilling to do their full share of the work.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
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