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

Meanwhile, everybody else is having a nice easy time, while I am laboring like six dray-horses for the general good.

From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Bird, Frederic Mayer

If God is not in it, then I am laboring under hallucination.

From Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) by Pearson, Elizabeth Ware

"I am laboring to return that which is divine in us, unto that Divinity which informs and enlivens the whole universe."

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland