How To Use Belabor In A Sentence

The obvious is belabored with depressing frequency; the following passage illustrates this and other problems.
Complain though we may about "Saturday Night Live," the show is still the greatest training ground for comic talent around -- and Monday night's special belabors the obvious with inarguably entertaining results. Tom Shales reviews tonight's retrospecial,'The Women of "Saturday Night Live"'
Dog owners have their pooches swiped on the street, are belaboured about the face and neck, and the whole incident is captured on video phones for the entertainment of witless youths.
He sent out trusted assistants to make the local arrangements, chivvied them if they did not make fast enough progress, and belaboured officials who prevaricated or objected.
Loaded pauses and … belaboured accentuation as the automotive irritants vroom through another joke … about driveshafts. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die

belaboured" Froude, with all the violence of which he was capable, in The Contemporary Review. The Life of Froude
It was sometimes necessary to belabor the obvious when Nefret's indignation got the better of her. LORD OF THE SILENT
The answer is obvious, and there's no point belaboring it.
Rather than belabor the point, I will simply assume the following.
For, as I shall belaborate below, a normal man is a vertical man -- or what Schuon called pontifical man. One Cosmos
He seems to be looking for a man of straw to belabor.
This is especially the case when those words simply amount to belabouring the obvious.
I fear that to make this statement is to belabor the obvious.
He rather belabors the point on those occasions when Tom experiences empathy for others an emotion which he describes as feeling sorry for himself while pretending to be someone else, and really, Portman is being more than a little disingenuous when a kid whose vocabulary includes the word 'callipygian' can't put a name to empathy when he experiences it. King Dork by Frank Portman
But to his credit, it should be emphasized, he does not belabor any theme too much.
Not to belabor the topic, but there is an important distinction between being what is called a "foreign resident" for tax purposes and a resident with regards to your immigration status. FM2 and Citizenship
belabor the obvious
It seemed to me that there were now two areas: one was that of what you might call highbrow poetry and one could go on belabouring people writing in that field.
(Not necessarily belabored or overly "academic" exegesis but some "close reading" with a lighter touch.) The Biographical Fallacy
I’ll hamper, bethwack, and belabour all the devils, now I have some vine-leaves in my shoes. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
It belabors the obvious to say Arab-Iranian relations are complicated," John Limbert wrote Wednesday in Foreign Policy in an essay discussing the outcome of cables leaked by WikiLeaks that paint a frosty picture of relations between the leaders of Arab states and their Iranian neighbor: Arabian vs. Persian: Iranians take to U.S. Navy's Facebook to protest 'Arabian Gulf'
To belabor the obvious, a lot of the people who stayed did so because they didn't have the money to leave.
If anything he belabours the point overmuch in this play, so that, between the incessantly hammered-home moral point and his inability to speak in anything but apophthegms, one is quite tired out by the end.
If anything he belabours the point overmuch in this play, so that, between the incessantly hammered-home moral point and his inability to speak in anything but apophthegms, one is quite tired out by the end.
With the earnestness of a high-school civics instructor, he continues to belabor the obvious.
I read that some of my countrymen belaboured some others of my countrymen purely because they came to my city from other parts of my country, searching for jobs.
She'd no notion of leisurely love-making, either; thirty seconds of gentle dalliance and she started behaving like the Empress Theodora run amok, with poor old Flashy fighting for his life, belaboured by balloons of black jelly. THE NUMBERS
He's handling this part just right, it seems to me, by staking out his positions without belaboring them or taking shots at those who disagree (except, of course, for activist judges).
Both memoirs aimed for a 'feel-good' reaction rather than belabouring the comedians' poor and unprivileged backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
The answer is obvious, and there's no point belaboring it.
I fear that to make this statement is to belabor the obvious.
It was sometimes necessary to belabor the obvious when Nefret's indignation got the better of her. LORD OF THE SILENT
Roused to frenzy by the loss of his queen, the king goes in pursuit, belabouring whomsoever he finds and meeting with mortifying adventures.
Mind you, if Wright were to injure a fingernail in a sad Subbuteo accident, then the ICC might just have to act.2nd over: England 8-2 Trott 3, Bell 0 So we don't get to see Steyn v Pietersen, which was one of the highlights of the World Twenty20, when Pietersen belaboured 23 from 8 balls. England v South Africa - live! | Rob Smyth
In the course of his account of the sojourn at Marienbad, this writer speaks of Chopin's polichinades: "He imitated then this or that famous artist, the playing of certain pupils or compatriots, belabouring the keyboard with extravagant gestures, a wild [echevele] and romantic manner, which he called aller a la chasse aux pigeons."] Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
I don't want to belabor the mercury discussion, but I'd like to point out why the hazards are not exaggerated.
Jokes are laboured and belaboured; situations are overindulged and run to exhaustion before they end.
No point in belaboring the obvious: Writer's cross-reference tool continues to be arcane and usable only when some custom fields or macros are added to automate the process.
But as I lay the book down, it made me think about one of the much belaboured tropes of literary writing - that the author so often feels obliged not to be straightforward, but to hide the truth of the tale in a welter of words that have to be decoded. The literary trope
This post is some combination of belaboring the obvious and speculating wildly about the future.
But to his credit, it should be emphasized, he does not belabor any theme too much.
It was sometimes necessary to belabor the obvious when Nefret's indignation got the better of her. LORD OF THE SILENT
I don't want to belabor the mercury discussion, but I'd like to point out why the hazards are not exaggerated.
Not to belabor the issue, the question is: why is it so difficult today to resist those pressures?
So, if you're looking for a weighty tome for a Christmas present, to block a draught or to belabour rival fans, you'll want to enter the competition.
He seems to be looking for a man of straw to belabour.
It was sometimes necessary to belabor the obvious when Nefret's indignation got the better of her. LORD OF THE SILENT
The actors work too hard at their Brooklyn accents and Miller belabors his point, but he at least demonstrates the craft to do it poetically and smoothly. The Witty Bits of a Play
In the nineteenth century, it was the moral at the heart of a story which led to critics belabouring certain writers.
There is a nice message about the perils of wanting to be popular and its consequences, but Lowe belabors it, addressing it repetitively, repeating it over and over get the point! making the book seem like one of those not-very-special After School Specials. Archive 2010-01-01
To belabor the obvious, La Jornada is a leftist newspaper. San Juan Copala
Rather than belabor the point, I will simply assume the following.
By cob's body, I'll hamper, bethwack, and belabour all the devils, now I have some vine-leaves in my shoes. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
A fellow dived on him, grabbing his wrist, the squawking woman was belabouring me with her gamp, Joe was hurling his attacker aside ... but by that time I was going through the dining section like Springheeled Jack, sending a table flying as I plunged through the kitchen door. THE NUMBERS
At the risk of belabouring the point, let me cite just one other publication dealing with this question.
The obvious is belabored with depressing frequency; the following passage illustrates this and other problems.
I don't want to belabour the issue whether or not all of this category actually is porn.
She was belabored by her fellow students
This post is some combination of belaboring the obvious and speculating wildly about the future.
But Ms. Hustvedt rarely belabors the theme—this brisk, ebullient novel is a potpourri of poems, diary entries, emails and quicksilver self-analysis: "My own head was a storehouse of multiloquy, the flux de mots of myriad contrarians who argued and debated and skewered one another with mordant parley. What the Nanny Saw; the Trouble With Men
During the next week, I escaped both scolding and "belaboring The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
The music will be so loud you think someone's belabouring your whole body with a hammer.
A fellow dived on him, grabbing his wrist, the squawking woman was belabouring me with her gamp, Joe was hurling his attacker aside … but by that time I was going through the dining section like Springheeled Jack, sending a table flying as I plunged through the kitchen door. Flashman and the angel of the lord
I have my own opinions on the matter, obviously, and I've belabored the board sufficiently with them.
He got his point across early but yet he belabored it.
Not to belabor the obvious, but our ancestors were fish.
The man in the front, whose Jew-looking appearance attracted attention, was endeavouring to increase the speed of the conveyance by belabouring the boney rump of the _prad_ {1} with his hat, while some of their pedestrian Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
But let's not belabor this Peter Pan thing any longer.
Bear just likes to show he can count and then belabour the point. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
A woman whose mother was a Christian Scientist recalls the belabored feeding her family undertook to maintain their health: fasts, cleanses, fermentation and raw food, hydrogen peroxide from the bottle, apple-cider vinegar, barley grass. It’s Not Just White Girls
At the risk of belabouring the point, let me cite just one other publication dealing with this question.
I belabor the obvious only because Stoker has flagged in passing, though under unusual thematic pressure, the mismatch between phonemes and morphemes overburden by its preoccupation with linguistic transcription — somatic, mechanical, telegraphic, phonographic, and so on. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
A strong desire had Quentin to have belaboured him while the staff of his lance could hold together, but he put a restraint on his passion, recollecting that a brawl with such a character could be creditable at no time or place, and that a quarrel of any kind, on the present occasion, would be a breach of duty, and might involve the most perilous consequences. Quentin Durward
Yes, I was going to add something about the verb infinitive trocar, but it just seemed that I would have been belaboring the point. Trueque
But Ms. Hustvedt rarely belabors the theme—this brisk, ebullient novel is a potpourri of poems, diary entries, emails and quicksilver self-analysis: "My own head was a storehouse of multiloquy, the flux de mots of myriad contrarians who argued and debated and skewered one another with mordant parley. What the Nanny Saw; the Trouble With Men
The English learned from the French, however, building square stockades with corner bastions and crude barracks and storehouses, the men sleeping in pairs or trios head-to-foot, belabored by bedbugs, fleas, flies, ticks, and lice.2 George Washington’s First War
I don't really want to belabor this since we're not even on the original topic of this thread. Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . .
But despite this shift away from the dopey antics of Cheech & Chong, the media persists in belaboring all of the older marijuana stereotypes. Steve Bloom: Legalization or Bust: A Brief History of Marijuana Prohibition
Just to belabor the point a bit, the word "detriment" comes from the Latin de - "away" + terere "to rub, wear," and has the connotation of impair or injure. A Tetrahymena Puzzle
The music will be so loud you think someone's belabouring your whole body with a hammer.
The setup is crudely overplayed, with projectile poop and verbal come-ons aimed at the reliably pungent Leslie Mann, who plays Mrs. Bateman and is the longest-suffering woman in so-called bromantic comedy mentioning her marriage to Judd Apatow, who popularized and problematized the dynamic, only belabors the point. Boston.com Top Stories
He felt its sharp wooden edge cut into his spine, as men began to belabour his shoulders, his head, his arms with sticks. TANK OF SERPENTS
Once again Keller belabors the superficial and the obvious to the exclusion of any understanding of the understanding of the business of the legislature. Democracy and the Senate
You could now strike your adversary such a blow with your fist on the face as to render him unconscious, or, of course, you could belabor him with your stick if it were suitable for the purpose.
At its frequent rise and fall you would say that they swinge and belabour me after the manner of a probationer, posed and put to a peremptory trial in the examination of his sufficiency for the discharge of the learned duty of a graduate in some eminent degree in the college of the Sorbonists. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The Indians of San Francisco were as immedicable as they were hideous; but the fathers belabored them with sticks and heaven with prayer, and had so far succeeded that if as yet they had sown piety no higher than the knees, they had trained some twelve hundred pairs of hands to useful service. Rezánov
The reasoning seems virtually identical to the articles I have written on this, so I won't belabor it here.
Now, I don't want to belabor this point, but there is something remarkably obvious that needs to be said.
You could now strike your adversary such a blow with your fist on the face as to render him unconscious, or, of course, you could belabor him with your stick if it were suitable for the purpose.
The reasoning seems virtually identical to the articles I have written on this, so I won't belabor it here.
The description of the cathedral and the experience therein is positive to the point of being belabored. Book Review: Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
Jokes are laboured and belaboured; situations are overindulged and run to exhaustion before they end.
Where x is directly proportional to the reasonableness of a listener and N represents a number of points of evidence required to convince that listener satisfyingly, N - x represents a lower threshold beneath which the explanation is deemed insufficient while N + x represents a higher threshold above which the explanation is deemed belaboured. Arguing With Geeks 1
I responded to your opening post, which belabored a trivial point. A Q&A Relevant to Catastrophyism
Belabored, bejeweled-interestingly, the poem seems closer to the surface flash of many contemporary poems than the severe lineations and stark vivid colors of Plath's late work.
I propose to belabour this point of view.
He's handling this part just right, it seems to me, by staking out his positions without belaboring them or taking shots at those who disagree (except, of course, for activist judges).
We all see your point;there's no need to belabour it.
Next they turned the clock back even further to the 1960s, in belaboring the Bill Ayers/Weather Underground connection, and now they’re all the way back in the Cold War with accusations of socialism! History Rears Up To Spit In Your Face | ATTACKERMAN
She ups her stick and begins to belabour him across the shoulders.
The elderly poet chased the young man, belabouring him round the shoulders with a walking stick.
There many other projects and forms of aid which can be cited and there is certainly no need to belabour the point.
The catchpole, after a diligent search, had an opportunity of executing the writ upon the defendant, who, without ceremony, broke one of his arms, fractured his skull, and belaboured him in such a manner, that he lay without sense or motion on the spot. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
I don't want to belabour the point, but it's vital you understand how important this is.
There's no need to belabour the point - you don't need to keep reminding me.
Complain though we may about "Saturday Night Live," the show is still the greatest training ground for comic talent around -- and Monday night's special belabors the obvious with inarguably entertaining results. Tom Shales reviews tonight's retrospecial,'The Women of "Saturday Night Live"'
But I do think the way it's being handled is awfully heavy-handed, not so much an insult to the intelligence as it is unnecessarily obvious, with Dexter's voice-overs underscoring and belaboring what is already so clear. Ask Matt: Walking Dead, Homeland, Terra Nova, Dexter and More!
And these hapless people whose gaiety at first had been so peaceful, at length belaboured each other soundly.
So saying, he thrust the magic lance into some of the pigmy effigies, and belabored others with the but-end, upon which the former fell as dead upon the board, and the rest turning upon each other began, pell-mell, a chance-medley fight. The Alhambra
I won't belabour the point, for this is a familiar story.
Every issue that belabors the black community, drugs, obesity, sexual identity, every single concern of the humanists who worry about the physical and spiritual health of our country are here addressed. Gwen Davis: Talent Will Save Us
But let's not belabor this Peter Pan thing any longer.
Now, I don't want to belabor this point, but there is something remarkably obvious that needs to be said.
Each breath seems belabored and more tiring than beneficial.
He tends to find a point in his case (and in both books, the point he chooses to belabor is ridiculous and would not BE a point in a real case of law) and go over and over and over that point ad nauseum until you want to scream. Curlicue Tales...and Martini's - hold the grammar
There are no political or moral messages here, and though it clearly is an anti-war film, the point isn't belabored.
He felt its sharp wooden edge cut into his spine, as men began to belabour his shoulders, his head, his arms with sticks. TANK OF SERPENTS
With the earnestness of a high-school civics instructor, he continues to belabor the obvious.
Yes, I was going to add something about the verb infinitive trocar, but it just seemed that I would have been belaboring the point. Trueque
This is especially the case when those words simply amount to belabouring the obvious.
In the nineteenth century, it was the moral at the heart of a story which led to critics belabouring certain writers.
Her belabored breathing is indistinguishable from the sounds of nature, the bullfrog's croaks and the insects' swarms.
Bear just likes to show he can count and then belabour the point. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
To belabor the obvious, a lot of the people who stayed did so because they didn't have the money to leave.
Any joke gets pretty thin when belaboured and you guys are definitely overdoing it. Quick crossword No 12,691
But Lovelace, without belaboring the point, also gives her a lesson or two. Growing Pangs
Loaded pauses and … belaboured accentuation as the automotive irritants vroom through another joke … about driveshafts. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
Downey dazzles, gear creaks; 'Mother and Child' belabors adoption's impact. 'Iron Man 2': Rust Never Sleeps
And these hapless people whose gaiety at first had been so peaceful, at length belaboured each other soundly.
Loaded pauses and … belaboured accentuation as the automotive irritants vroom through another joke … about driveshafts. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
Not to belabor the obvious, but our ancestors were fish.
Sancho arose; and with rage to see himself so belaboured without desert, he ran upon the goatherd to be revenged on him, saying that he was in the fault, who had not premonished them how that mans raving fits did take him so at times; for, had they been advertised thereof, they might have stood all the while on their guard. The Third Book. X. Wherein Is Prosecuted the Adventure of Sierra Morena
Some of Ellis's analyses, though thorough, seem a little muddied and somewhat belabored.
I see it as a good example of meaningless, puffed-up verbiage intended to convey the impression of eloquence or significance; but perhaps it is also an example of a kind of belabored delicacy: it's as if the author is saying "there is a group which certain people of interest belong to, but I will preserve them by claiming an indeterminate quantity for censure". Languagehat.com: SOME OF WHOM HAVING.
I have my own opinions on the matter, obviously, and I've belabored the board sufficiently with them.
I read that some of my countrymen belaboured some others of my countrymen purely because they came to my city from other parts of my country, searching for jobs.
So, if you're looking for a weighty tome for a Christmas present, to block a draught or to belabour rival fans, you'll want to enter the competition.
The GOP belabored the racist topic for three days and it left them looking like a big dirty sac Leahy on Sotomayor: 'Stop the racial politics'
Not to belabor the issue, the question is: why is it so difficult today to resist those pressures?
Appropriate Pacing: Pace your story so points are neither belaboured or rushed. 5 Reasons Your Story Stinks (and How to Air It Out) | Write to Done
Or does mere public belabouring sometimes debase the very virtues intended for promotion and inoculate public sentiment against subscription?
The elderly poet chased the young man, belabouring him round the shoulders with a walking stick.
He got his point across early but yet he belabored it.
Walking with Neglect is so belabored and choppy, requiring miles of effort to drag myself a few miserable feet. Left Neglected
It seemed to me that there were now two areas: one was that of what you might call highbrow poetry and one could go on belabouring people writing in that field.
Country, _Shorthose_, you were an arrant fool, a dull cold coxcombe, here every Tavern teaches you, the pint pot has so belaboured you with wit, your brave acquaintance that gives you Ale, so fortified your mazard, that now there's no talking to you. Wit Without Money The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
I hate to toss out what I'm sure is a belabored question, but with regard to safety --- this route is ok? Road Trip From Mazamitla to Patzcuaro
There many other projects and forms of aid which can be cited and there is certainly no need to belabour the point.

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