backbreakingly love

Definitions

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  • adverb In a backbreaking manner.

Etymologies

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backbreaking +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Moviemaking was colossally complex, backbreakingly difficult, obscenely expensive — and it almost always failed.

    Toiling in the Dream Factory 2007

  • Moviemaking was colossally complex, backbreakingly difficult, obscenely expensive — and it almost always failed.

    Toiling in the Dream Factory 2007

  • Ariana suddenly felt exhausted and backbreakingly sad.

    Beautiful Disaster Kate Brian 2009

  • We have a HEAVY pine kingsize bed that pretty much fills the room, a backbreakingly heavy mattress and a three-door wardrobe that is just not going to be funny to move even an inch.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2003

  • Being a wine merchant, I often thought, was not a gentle artistic occupation, but thoroughly backbreakingly physical.

    PROOF Francis, Dick 1984

  • All he knew was that everyone wanted it, wanted it badly, and that he was having a hard time keeping it…The sense of personal safety it gave him, the awareness that here at last was one object which he could actually depend on, the almost positive knowledge that it would one day actually save him, all of these comforted him as he lay rolled up in his two blankets and one shelterhalf with the rocky ground jabbing him in the flanks or as he toiled backbreakingly all day long at the never-ending job of putting up barbed wire.

    Ecstatic Days » 2009 » June 2009

  • All he knew was that everyone wanted it, wanted it badly, and that he was having a hard time keeping it…The sense of personal safety it gave him, the awareness that here at last was one object which he could actually depend on, the almost positive knowledge that it would one day actually save him, all of these comforted him as he lay rolled up in his two blankets and one shelterhalf with the rocky ground jabbing him in the flanks or as he toiled backbreakingly all day long at the never-ending job of putting up barbed wire.

    Revising Fiction by David Madden: Leading by Example (and with TOC Checklist) 2009

  • Editor’s Choice: Moviemaking in Hollywood’s classical period was colossally complex, backbreakingly difficult, obscenely expensive — and it almost always failed.

    The Reel Thing 2008

  • Editor’s Choice: Moviemaking in Hollywood’s classical period was colossally complex, backbreakingly difficult, obscenely expensive — and it almost always failed.

    The Reel Thing 2008

  • Editor’s Choice: Moviemaking in Hollywood’s classical period was colossally complex, backbreakingly difficult, obscenely expensive — and it almost always failed.

    The Reel Thing 2008

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