Drudgery Sentence Examples

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  • No man was less fitted by temperament for the necessary drudgery and worry.

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  • This can make the task seem less like drudgery and is perfect for busy people.

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  • But, though everybody was kind and ready to help us, there was only one hand that could turn drudgery into pleasure.

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  • Your training must not become drudgery or a chore that has to be done.

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  • But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness.

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  • A year or two of dull drudgery and few fees followed, and he began to be much depressed.

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  • The continuing quest to escape the drudgery of every day life.

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  • I was aware of the usual drudgery of funding issues which so often affects the work that we do.

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  • His drug induced lunacy and gimmickry offered a break from Homme's ultra-cool, focused, drudgery.

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  • Retail shopping is pure bliss for some, while others consider it nothing short of drudgery.

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  • One and all skilful to a surpassing degree - weavers, embroiderers, potters, painters, engravers, carvers, sculptors and jewellers, - they were wearied by drudgery and overpowered by a never-absent, weird and grotesque theology.

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  • About the same time disposable diapers became readily available, diaper services also sprang up for those who still wanted to use cloth but who didn't want to deal with the drudgery of all that laundry.

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  • This intermittent scooping action takes some of the daily drudgery out of maintaining your cat's litter box, giving you a few days of freedom between cleanings.

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  • Many village girls are married as young as 12 or 13 and spend the rest of their lives in poverty-stricken household drudgery.

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  • In fact, it can be a job full of lengthy shifts, drudgery, and disillusionment as crew members learn just what goes on behind the scenes of exotic cruise vacations.

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  • Her selection by her Companion - and Companions are allowed to roam the kingdom at will seeking their perfect match - freed her from a life of drudgery.

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  • Settling at Leipzig, still without any fixed means of livelihood, he was again reduced to literary drudgery.

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  • To take a simple example a the washing machine is probably the domestic appliance that has probably done most to reduce domestic drudgery.

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  • The Danish motorways have lots of lovely picnic areas, which take the drudgery out of driving.

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  • The XSLToolbox's goal is to help developers avoid the drudgery of writing the complicated XSLT transforms often needed to integrate XML applications.

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  • They're an ideal solution for offloading much of the daily drudgery of maintaining network security.

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  • The everyday drudgery with which it presents its startling story is actually rather involving.

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  • When work beats you down is when it becomes mere drudgery in the service of another.

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  • In 1924, women set up the Electrical Association for Women to campaign to remove drudgery from housework.

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  • The mind-numbing drudgery of office work should not be overlooked, of course.

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  • Rapidly tiring of office drudgery, he leaped at the chance to head the publishing firm which was founded in 1809.

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  • However, you can take some of drudgery out of it by planning well and sticking to your yearly budget.

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  • Instead of looking at it as work or drudgery, consider it as time for yourself and that flatter tummy you long to see when you look in the mirror.

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  • He repaired to Birmingham, and there earned a few guineas by literary drudgery.

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  • He was at liberty, after thirty years of anxiety and drudgery, to indulge his constitutional indolence, to lie in bed till two in the afternoon, and to sit up talking till four in the morning, without fearing either the printer's devil or the sheriff's officer.

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  • Many people had been surprised to see a man of his genius and learning stooping to every drudgery, and denying himself almost every comfort, for the purpose of supplying a silly, affected old woman with superfluities, which she accepted with but little gratitude.

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  • The peasant got rid of a hateful drudgery which not only took up his time and means in an unprofitable manner, but placed him under the rough control and the arbitrary discipline of stewards or reeves and gave occasion to all sorts of fines and extortions.

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  • Denisov then relieved him from drudgery and began taking him with him when he went out on expeditions and had him enrolled among the Cossacks.

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  • During the seven years which he passed in the drudgery of penning definitions and marking quotations for transcription, he sought for relaxation in literary labour of a more agreeable kind.

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  • On the return of the Unionists to power in 1895 he resumed the leadership of the House, but not at first with the success expected of him, his management of the abortive education proposals of '96 being thought, even by his own supporters, to show a disinclination for the continuous drudgery of parliamentary management under modern conditions.

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