Example Sentences

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Eager to be the first legislators to craft a concrete proposal, the Democratic members of the House Subcommittee on Health have been slaving late nights for two months.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Here I have been slaving and toiling for color for six months, and I can hardly get enough to pay for my provisions, but I'll bet it won't be that way, now, much longer."

From The Haunted Mine by Castlemon, Harry

You know how your mothers or wives or sisters have been slaving and stinting—what pain is theirs, what burdens, what troubles.

From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James

Dick Ryan said, with a deep sigh, "you don't mean to say that I must begin to work on another language, just after I have been slaving, for the last six months, at Portuguese?"

From Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War by Paget, Walter

I have been slaving myself till I can hardly stand, to contrive Mr. Rushworth's cloak without sending for any more satin; and now I think you may give me your help in putting it together.

From Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane