laboured

How To Use laboured In A Sentence

• They have not laboured in the vineyard long enough to accept the dynamics of the struggle that he has been engaged in.
• He then launches into a laboured attempt to show us what happens next by drawing on the history of oil in Kuwait.
• Or else, the productions crumbled under the weight of laboured interpretations.
• I've written before about how his laboured breathing was one of the few things I remember of him.
• 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.
• Under the olive and fig trees, they plant corn and vines, so that there is not an inch of ground unlaboured: but here are no open fields, meadows, or cattle to be seen. Travels through France and Italy
• From then on, generations of disciples laboured with hand tools to hew giant temples, intricate statues and monasteries of up to three storeys.
• Stair soothed the dog with one hand, for he could hear his heart thump in short laboured leaps as if after a long pursuit of a dog-fox on the hillside. Patsy
• 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