Related Words
See elaborate.
Other Word Forms
- laboredly adverb
- laboredness noun
- unlabored adjective
- well-labored adjective
Etymology
Origin of labored
Example Sentences
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Another concerned a sort of command center where workers labored “to make the internet as bad as we can possibly get it.”
From Los Angeles Times
Araceli Molar de Barrios labored in the fields for nearly 30 years after arriving in the U.S. in 1995, two years after Chavez’s death.
From Los Angeles Times
Lamarck labored professionally under the modest title of professor of insects and worms.
In the silence that followed, Mary’s labored breathing seemed especially loud.
From Literature
Her tongue escaped the side of her mouth as she labored.
From Literature
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