How to Use hard labor in a Sentence

hard labor

noun

• The strain from the cold and the hard labor may cause a heart attack.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 30 Oct. 2021
• He was sentenced to 40 years at hard labor on each of the charges.
  — Heather Nolan, NOLA.com, 14 May 2018
• In June, he was sentenced to life in prison and hard labor.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
• He had been sentenced to eight years of hard labor in prison.
  — Haruka Nuga, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2018
• The hard labor occurs in the quiet strip between the paint and the perimeter.
  — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 14 Mar. 2016
• The people in his world were maimed and marked by hard labor and hard living.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• There was a lot of work to do on the frontier, and the enslaved African Americans did most of the hard labor.
  — Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2022
• The charge carries a penalty of up to five years in prison with or without hard labor.
  — Littice Bacon-Blood, NOLA.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• From there, he was leased to work hard labor on a railroad for twenty-five cents a day.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 5 Oct. 2017
• Women’s hair gets chopped off, and women and men work side by side in hard labor.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 6 June 2019
• June: Totally didn’t put in the years of hard labor that others did.
  — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2021
• In fact, about a week later, Fenster was sentenced to 11 years of hard labor in prison.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
• He is sentenced to 90 days hard labor and a reduction of rank.
  — CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
• Under a plea agreement reached with the state, Rendell Brown will be sentenced to 40 years at hard labor on each of the charges.
  — Heather Nolan, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• He was charged with espionage and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor.
  — Cary Junior Ii, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2022
• Seven soldiers were sentenced to 10-year prison terms with hard labor last week over the killings.
  — Bard Wilkinson, CNN, 16 Apr. 2018
• Arvid was soon sentenced to hang; Mildred was sentenced to six years of hard labor.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• Al-Makt was sentenced last year to three years in prison with hard labor after she was detained in 2017.
  — Albert Aji, Star Tribune, 17 Feb. 2021
• But there’s a lot of big tech companies that are getting the dividends of a lot of artists’ hard labor.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2021
• After an hour-long trial, the student was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years hard labor.
  — NBC News, 20 Jan. 2022
• The colonial-era laws call for penalties that range from 10 years to life in prison, with one including hard labor as well.
  — DÁnica Coto, Star Tribune, 17 Feb. 2021
• McDonald’s life sentence of hard labor did not mark the end of his scheming.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2021
• Two years ago this week, he was sentenced to 10 years of hard labor on charges of spying and stealing state secrets.
  — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2018
• The Ram takes on this hard labor with near indifference.
  — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 28 Jan. 2020
• Such antics are a spectacular sight for the fans but hard labor for the drivers.
  — Tony Assenza, Car and Driver, 23 June 2020
• The initial death sentence was commuted to three years of hard labor.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• Dostoyevsky does four years of hard labor in the Omsk prison camp, and another five as a soldier in the Siberian army.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2021
• They were leased out to factories and plantations to do hard labor.
  — oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2020
• On every hand are old men and women, seamed, withered, shapeless, big-jointed from a lifetime of hard labor with corn and pigs.
  — Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
• Roughly one in five inmates died from hard labor, cruel treatment, and the severe deprivations of the camps.
  — Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024