laboured

/ ˈleɪbəd /

adjective

1. (of breathing) performed with difficulty

2. showing effort; contrived; lacking grace or fluency

Other Word Forms

• labouredness noun
• labouredly adverb

Example Sentences

However, after England's stand-in skipper Jacob Bethell again won the toss and put the hosts into bat, Sunday's innings was a much more laboured affair.

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"It's slow, laboured, because you're in the hands of other people."

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Points became slow and laboured in testing conditions - but neither player refused to give in.

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Kamboj has looked a poor pick – his medium pace is proving ineffective and his fielding laboured – while captain Gill made his most obvious tactical error in his four Tests as skipper to date.

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The run-up was laboured and while there were still those moments, Stokes relied on aura every bit as much as skill.

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