How to Use drudgery in a Sentence

drudgery

noun

• He hated the drudgery of his job.
• Star, 31, is too busy to deal with the drudgery of keeping pets.
  — Helin Jung, Cosmopolitan, 7 Sep. 2017
• Borlaug grew up in Iowa, schooled in the drudgery of farm life.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• But the message is the same: The visits will be drudgery, but so what?
  — Jay Mathews, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Who has been such a folk hero of workaday boredom and 9 to 5 drudgery?
  — Taffy Brodesser-Akner, miamiherald, 8 Feb. 2018
• Turn the drudgery of riding the train into a genuine thrill ride.
  — Stephanie Walden, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2017
• 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 latter was a mix of drudgery and delight; the former much more solid fun.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 23 July 2024
• There is no hint that any of this routine has become drudgery.
  — Victoria Pope, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2017
• 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
• Where there’s a will (to avoid the drudgery of laundry day), there’s absolutely a way.
  — Jessica Toscano, SELF, 23 Feb. 2019
• Weah’s first league goal was the result of unusual drudgery.
  — Ronald Blum, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
• But her grand idea to end the drudgeries of housework never took hold, and by 2002, the cost of running the house had bled her savings dry.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
• 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
• But in this context, the robots are simply taking some of the drudgery away from humans.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2018
• 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
• The Mafia shared tips and problems and agreed on account prices, with plenty of banter to enliven the drudgery of the digital assembly line.
  — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024