labored

[ US /ˈɫeɪbɝd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. requiring or showing effort
    heavy breathing
    the subject made for labored reading
  2. lacking natural ease
    a labored style of debating
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How To Use labored In A Sentence

  • What is news is that from the very beginning, biggety ivory-tower academics have labored to recruit into their ranks the sons and daughters of the powerful, famous, and rich. [Help] Most Recent Posts
  • The obvious is belabored with depressing frequency; the following passage illustrates this and other problems.
  • One evening we labored, stung by nettles and mosquitoes, to set up Sewell's camera blind on Otter Pond in the great marsh.
  • The one factor that was actually improving as we labored along was that we were burning a bunch of fuel.
  • This was one of the primary goals of Byzantine scholarship in the tenth century; rather than creating new knowledge and areas of study, the scholars of that era labored to preserve the legacy of the past, and the Suda is one of the culminating achievements of "the encyclopedism of the tenth century. Languagehat.com: SUDA/SUIDAS.
  • The background is an intricately marbleized cascade of diaphanous, sea-foam-green skeins over cerulean blue, a surface more precious and less labored than usual.
  • She heard a labored snick and felt the brick move under her hand.
  • She paused, descending into some distant, nether reverie, and stared at the fish as if in labored communication with it. Fish Story
  • One day I labored in the basement kitchen plucking a hundred pigeons, burning the tougher feathers off with a hand-held torch.
  • It was important to find out how the noise is made, she explained in labored tones. Pu’ukani’s Song « A Fly in Amber
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