How to Use drudgery in a Sentence

drudgery

noun
  • He hated the drudgery of his job.
  • It is also feared that teenagers would rebel against such drudgery.
    — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Life itself, with all its toil, drudgery, tragedy, and pain, is weighty enough.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • There is no hint that any of this routine has become drudgery.
    — Victoria Pope, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Borlaug grew up in Iowa, schooled in the drudgery of farm life.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Hold on to that sense of hope when day-to-day drudgery threatens to grind you down.
    — Jennifer Culp, Them, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The dark age ideas of work as drudgery and sweat equity no longer hold up.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Star, 31, is too busy to deal with the drudgery of keeping pets.
    — Helin Jung, Cosmopolitan, 7 Sep. 2017
  • These are the tasks that weigh down knowledge workers and make work feel like drudgery.
    — John Winsor, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Who has been such a folk hero of workaday boredom and 9 to 5 drudgery?
    — Taffy Brodesser-Akner, miamiherald, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The filmmakers show us the soul-killing drudgery of the workers’ lives.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Instead, treat it as a tool that eliminates drudgery.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • And there’s a lot of just drudgery, actually, too.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The usual Ubisoft drudgery, where icons on maps become weights on the brain, was gone.
    — Tauriq Moosa, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2024
  • The latter was a mix of drudgery and delight; the former much more solid fun.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 23 July 2024
  • 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
  • Next, target the time-sucks and digital drudgery that slow your people down.
    — Lindsey Witmer Collins, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • If volunteering is drudgery, yuck, who’s going to want to do that?
    — Bill Hoogterp, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Where there’s a will (to avoid the drudgery of laundry day), there’s absolutely a way.
    — Jessica Toscano, SELF, 23 Feb. 2019
  • The tools are useful in automating busywork and drudgery.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The bar where everyone knows his name is his refuge from the day-to-day drudgery of his job as an accountant.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • Almost everyone has accepted the idea that drudgery is par for the course at work.
    — Shani Harmon, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Still, a book about the books that polar voyagers took along with them would seem a prime choice for academic drudgery.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2020
  • But in this context, the robots are simply taking some of the drudgery away from humans.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2018
  • But videos of their escapades became a welcome escape from the drudgery of the working world.
    — New York Times, 23 June 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
  • Others call it a gamechanger for those who live in small apartments, or just want to take the drudgery out of dish washing.
    — Ho Lin, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025

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