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
  • 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
  • Baldwin added that there’s a misconception and fear that construction involves hard labor all the time.
    Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 28 May 2024

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