DRUDGERY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for DRUDGERY, such as:

1. Cinderella's fairy godmother rescued her from a life of drudgery.
2. George was taken home, and put to the meanest drudgery of the farm.
3. The toil, like all farm toil, is monotonous, and here there are little machinery and few tools to relieve its burdensome drudgery.

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 Meanings and Examples of DRUDGERY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
drudgery
 n.  hard monotonous routine work
Classic Sentence:
1  He would hire two others to do the drudgery and leave her as Mammy-in-chief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
2  Miss Pragg, the secretary, had been called away, and there would be notes and dinner-cards to write, lost addresses to hunt up, and other social drudgery to perform.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
3  George was taken home, and put to the meanest drudgery of the farm.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  But these solemn lessons which succeeded those, I remember as the death-blow of my peace, and a grievous daily drudgery and misery.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
5  It was the day of the week on which Mr. Sharp went out to get his wig curled; so Mr. Mell, who always did the drudgery, whatever it was, kept school by himself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
6  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.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER V
7  The toil, like all farm toil, is monotonous, and here there are little machinery and few tools to relieve its burdensome drudgery.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence:
1  Cinderella's fairy godmother rescued her from a life of drudgery.