(1) They endured hours of backbreaking work in miserable conditions.

(2) Digging the garden is a backbreaking job.

(3) Digging the garden was backbreaking work.

(4) These machines would relieve the peasants of their backbreaking labour.

(5) It is backbreaking, monotonous and requires skill.

(6) Now, after thirty days at this backbreaking and endless task, he realised why.

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

(8) To look after these children is really a backbreaking job.

(9) Buffett was horrified that he performed backbreaking work only to earn pennies an hour.

(10) Training for the University boat race must be one of the most backbreaking, brain blowing experiences in sport.

(11) The average work week was nearly eighty hours of either backbreaking labor or mind-numbing tedium.

(12) Much more wheat is needed to make bread, not to mention the backbreaking task of picking up loose seeds that tumble irritatingly to the ground.

(13) LOUHE, China — Xu Lindong, a poor village farmer with close-cropped hair and a fourth-grade education, knew nothing but decades of backbreaking labor.

(1) These machines would relieve the peasants of their backbreaking labour.