drudge

How To Use drudge In A Sentence

• One has to be a certain age to remember the soggy, steamy awfulness that was the drudgery of washdays when it involved galvanised tubs, poss-sticks and mangles.
• If you know the word lexicographer, there’s a better-than-even chance you also know Samuel Johnson’s self-mocking definition of it: “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification ofwords.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Guestblogging Dictionary Myths (Pt 4):
• If you know the word lexicographer, there’s a better-than-even chance you also know Samuel Johnson’s self-mocking definition of it: “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Guestblogging Dictionary Myths (Pt 4):
• It sounds like a total drudge, to be fair. Times, Sunday Times
• Our work is not drudgery, but something we are to take pleasure in today.
• I will not let you turn yourself into a governessing drudge, nor an eccentric to titillate the ton. DEVIL'S BRIDE
• Friars Cowle, which was so snottie and greazie, that good store of kitchin stuffe might have beene boiled out of it; as also a foule slovenly Trusse or halfe doublet, all baudied with bowsing, fat greazie lubberly sweating, and other drudgeries in the Convent The Decameron
• Isolation, loneliness, and the sheer drudgery of running a pioneer household - from sunup to sundown, without a single day's rest - has worn away at their resolve.
• He sang in choirs, played at balls and weddings and baptisms, made "arrangements" for anybody who would employ him, and in short drudged very much as Wagner did at the outset of his tempestuous career. Joseph Haydn
• Should we see them as dreary drudges, blind to the creativity of the Shakespeares and Hemingways who are taking the test?