What is "slaved away"

Usage examples of "slaved away".

Thanks to two lifetimes of hard work and sacrifice by his parents, Claude had gone to university, lie had obtained a degree in management, and when he returned to the logging camp where his parents still slaved away over their tele-operated cutting machines and microwave cookers, he wore a business suit and carned a portable computer rather than a chain saw.

I won't have you tracking blood in after I've slaved away getting the place spotless.

Braden needed or at least wanted the money that the promotion would bring, only to see the promotions go to the hotshots in Narcotics and Homicide while he slaved away& and why not take the goddamned money?

Some days I have the feeling that my life and work are just beginning, but sometimes it seems to me I've slaved away for eighty years and can soon lay claim to peace and rest.

Instead the first of the human crew along with several hundred civilian workers slaved away to refurbish the ship's exterior.

The remaining wisps of hair across the top of his head, the thick horn-rimmed glasses, the inexpensive watch on his wrist suggested a dull and colorless bureaucrat who slaved away unnoticed in a cubicle behind the water cooler.

Demanding more from their enlisted people than they'd ever expect from themselves, hardly working while the en listed people slaved away on brutal hours and insufficient food?

She slaved away, ignoring the comments from her instructor who told her she was good at comedy, trying to write full of angst.