Example Sentences

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By the time you read this, an army of rescue and humanitarian workers from throughout the world will be laboring to help victims of the earthquake.

From Washington Times • Apr. 29, 2015

Its most valuable assets are not among the journeymen who will be laboring at Yankee Stadium this week; they are the apprentices playing in places like Des Moines, Iowa; Kodak, Tenn.; and Daytona Beach, Fla.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2014

He is visualizing the terrible strain of taxation under which he, his children and their children will be laboring for the next 50 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

As long as she has the strength, Eleanor Roosevelt will be laboring over the horizon, shaking hands energetically with reception committees and discovering hopeful evidence of a better world to come.

From Time Magazine Archive