labour of love

NOUN
  1. productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation
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How To Use labour of love In A Sentence

  • She did not sing for fame, it was purely a labour of love.
  • For Joan it has been a labour of love and provides an amusing and detailed insight into medicine in the town.
  • I must cut my nails," she remarked, giving a finishing touch to this labour of love, which made Diavolo rock on his chair, but he accepted her attentions as a matter-of-course, merely drawling: "Angelica is _so_ energetical!" as he recovered his balance. The Heavenly Twins
  • Building the model railroad was a labour of love for the retired engineer.
  • Perhaps the words labour of love are used too often, as those three words are no more befitting than they are right here.
  • The project became a labour of love for the whole practice as it endeavoured to squeeze the best possible design out of a pretty limited budget.
  • All the dramas we went through to make the place habitable have been forgotten and for us the house represents a real labour of love. Times, Sunday Times
  • Will they wreck it before they can realise a profit on their labour of love? Times, Sunday Times
  • After the dot-com bubble burst, it was a labour of love. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a very nice and underpublicised story of a labour of love (or interesting obsession) that would be better known if it had been set in Los Angeles or Miami rather than rural Italy. This goodly frame, the earth
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