laboring

[ US /ˈɫeɪbɝɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. doing arduous or unpleasant work
    drudging peasants
    the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
    toiling coal miners in the black deeps
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How To Use laboring In A Sentence

  • Ten years ago he was a Dundee University drop out whose career encompassed labouring, recruitment consultancy and a rock band.
  • The little silver bell tinkles at a wayside shrine, calling the labouring man to propitiate the idol for the carelessness and detected dishonesties of his day's labours, and goodly Hindus, men and women, stream down the busy thoroughfare, responsive to the call. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
  • I am labouring here to contradict an old proverb, and make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, namely, to convert a bare 'haugh' and 'brae', of about The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
  • A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public – house on Saffron Hill. Oliver Twist
  • Through the blown scud the clamour of the bell came mournfully to us over the waves; in the blown drifts of rain we saw the bawley labouring to us. Movie Night
  • One does not need to be laboring under maniacal egomania to begin to believe oneself above it all.
  • The majority are adult women workers in below-average-income families laboring in unskilled jobs, often in the retail sector.
  • Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence. Learning New Words #2 « Write Anything
  • They also repaired, refitted, and caulked ships in the harbor, laboring for a $1.00 a day for their master.
  • It is at first perfect at the instant the kernel is going to send forth the acrospire, and form itself into the future blade; it is again discovered perfect when the ear is labouring at its extrication, and hastening the production of the yet unformed kernels; in this it appears, the medium of nature's chemistry, equally employed by her in her mutation of the kernel into the blade, and her formation thus of other kernels, by which she effects the completion of that circle to which the operations of the vegetable world are limited. The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
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