How to Use drudgery in a Sentence

drudgery

noun

• He hated the drudgery of his job.
• Cars the likes of the TF weren't built for interstate drudgery.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 11 Mar. 2023
• The filmmakers show us the soul-killing drudgery of the workers’ lives.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2023
• A lot of knowledge work is drudgery, like email triage.
  — WIRED, 13 June 2023
• The window over the sink let in the smell of summer grass and eased the drudgery of dishwashing.
  — Karen Brown, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2021
• Every chore inside the home and outside on the farm was drudgery.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 28 May 2021
• It is also feared that teenagers would rebel against such drudgery.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2021
• The dark age ideas of work as drudgery and sweat equity no longer hold up.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• But there is one hack that can save you from all that drudgery: time travel.
  — Swapna Krishna, Wired, 21 Apr. 2021
• The work of the people who perform the drudgery of digging in the dirt to find fossils is priceless.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2022
• The sheer drudgery of the race may stem from the inevitable decline in the city’s tabloid newspaper culture.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 May 2021
• Hundreds of health systems around the country are using these tools in hopes the AI can lift them out of the drudgery.
  — Brittany Trang, STAT, 28 Mar. 2023
• Sure, parenting involves a lot of drudgery and busy-work.
  — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019
• In other words, a day at the office suddenly feels less like drudgery and more like a day out.
  — Jane Black, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2021
• But videos of their escapades became a welcome escape from the drudgery of the working world.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2021
• And somewhere between those two poles is where the artist lives: magic and drudgery, day after day, for all the lucky years of our lives.
  — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• For her, the tent became an escape from the drudgery and isolation of working the overnight shift at Amazon.
  — Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
• There is a place, an important one, for the novels that give voice to the struggles and drudgeries of parenting.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2023
• Still, a book about the books that polar voyagers took along with them would seem a prime choice for academic drudgery.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2020
• For Siobhán, that grief has now become a kind of depression, a drudgery.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2023
• But this wasn’t a life of drudgery; Gussow was at the theater five or six nights a week, often taking his son Ethan with him.
  — Curbed, 26 Jan. 2024
• Few players of his caliber were ever so dedicated to the drudgery of the game.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 23 July 2019
• Harris’s experience in the kitchen does not appear to be one of drudgery.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2020
• Women are more likely to use traits that reduce the drudgery of agriculture for them.
  — Vivian Polar, Scientific American, 25 July 2022
• For many runners, an end-of-summer slump complete with drudgery and malaise is inevitable.
  — Duncan Larkin, Outside Online, 1 Sep. 2020
• Like most of the teenagers in her orbit, Lisa longs to be with someone who can relate to her disdain for the drudgery of everyday life.
  — Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2023
• Cole is attuned to the resoluteness that grows out of the daily traumas of apartheid, the refusal to bend to drudgery, or to horror.
  — M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
• The idea wasn’t to buy a mansion so much as lock in a little security and hedge against future drudgery.
  — Katie McDonough, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
• That Zen pronouncement doesn't make the day-in/day-out drudgery of aging any easier.
  — Keith Uhlich, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2020
• The whole project puts an emphasis on hi-tech updates to the regular drudgery of air travel.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024