Example Sentences

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One minute, she’d been in the bathroom, laboring through a contraction.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

Spirit has been laboring to emerge from its second trip to bankruptcy in less than a year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

You probably know it already — you’ve seen oil pumpjacks laboring away in nutty places, like on the La Cienega Boulevard shortcut through Baldwin Hills to the airport.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

This base allowed to soar last Sunday’s spire of victory at another Jack Hughes’s laboring hand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

At the juncture between turn and homestretch, he collared the last of the front-runners, Half Time, who was laboring along the rail.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand