To compensate for decades of exhausting, mind-numbing work in the plants, the United Automobile Workers long ago struck a deal with their bosses: retirement would come early and pay relatively well.

Working on the petitions is mind-numbing work, but it has served to provoke passionate conversation about what New York State's election process is all about.

The counting itself is mind-numbing work that nonetheless requires keen attention.

Computerized exercises on "imagery analysis" make what some former colleagues have described to me as mind-numbing work seem fascinating.

He splashed toward her and grabbed his pickax, planning to put some distance and hard, mind-numbing work between the two of them.

It was repetitive, mind-numbing work.

Canvassing a neighborhood is mind-numbing work, even for the young and uninitiated.

It could be cold, uncomfortable, mind-numbing work, lying prone behind sandbags that barely covered their helmets.

It was tedious, mind-numbing work, but it served to clear his mind, to keep his fears at bay.

Two hundred of them were paid minimum wage to do mind-numbing work, and they were the lucky ones; the other 100 were turned down for those same ill-paying, mind-numbing jobs.