labor
noun
productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
am laboring
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present progressiveof labor (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“I am laboring industriously to undeceive the people,” one optimistic officer wrote from Arkansas.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
"I am laboring under very violent emotion," the old man quavered.
From Time Magazine Archive
At present I am laboring on my farm, near Cincinnati, having no definite plan of future action.
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman
I know you love me, and I know you love the cause of Christ for which I am laboring, and I know you will do all you can to help me to help it.
From Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work by Rev. Gross Alexander
The more urgently do I ask this favor because here, in this mission of Santa Marta, it is but too clear to me that I am laboring in a barren field.
From The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
