Example Sentences

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A core group of negotiators have been laboring for nearly two months over changes to U.S. border and immigration policy and hoped to unveil the legislation later this week.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2024

E-bike manufacturers have been laboring to tamp down this perception, and it seems like it’s working.

From The Verge • Oct. 10, 2019

Orban says “there are quite a few veterans here who have been laboring for decades.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 22, 2017

They were served to recently signed free agents who’ve been merely watching training camp practices while most of their Saints teammates have been laboring in the Louisiana heat.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2011

The missionaries have been laboring for many years among the Bantu.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.