| Long ago, laundry tasks simply required a tub, washboard, clothesline and backbreaking labor. |
| An officer can order them to provide a month of backbreaking, uncompensated labour for the local battalion. |
| The new bridge will cut their backbreaking journey to Kandahar by five kilometers. |
| Below dark cliffs and mossy overhangs lay olive groves, entire slopes terraced with backbreaking plots of retaining walls and water channels. |
| The work I did in the camp was so backbreaking that I lost tissue in my spine. |
| In sub-Saharan Africa, millions of labour hours are wasted, especially by women, who are often subjected to this backbreaking work. |
