How To Use Laboured In A Sentence
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They have not laboured in the vineyard long enough to accept the dynamics of the struggle that he has been engaged in.
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He then launches into a laboured attempt to show us what happens next by drawing on the history of oil in Kuwait.
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Or else, the productions crumbled under the weight of laboured interpretations.
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I've written before about how his laboured breathing was one of the few things I remember of him.
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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.
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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.
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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
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From then on, generations of disciples laboured with hand tools to hew giant temples, intricate statues and monasteries of up to three storeys.
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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
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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
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In spite of advancing years and not too robust health, he laboured strenuously until the state of his health made it necessary for him to retire.
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belaboured" Froude, with all the violence of which he was capable, in The Contemporary Review.
The Life of Froude
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The word rightly translated 'laboured' will appear in its full force if I recall to you a couple of other places in which it is employed in the New Testament.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
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From his slow walk and laboured breathing, Ginny realized he was far from well.
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Some ascribe this to his natural genius; while others think that incredible effort and toil produced these, to all appearances, easy and unlaboured results.
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‘Thank you,’ said Dan, with laboured breeziness.
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The 85 minutes of laboured monologues and unconvincing heroism are as entertaining as a pet's funeral.
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This one had manoeuvred itself into an exposed position and was climbing in a laboured manner up a twisted, dry vine that was coming away from the tree.
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At a walk his gait was awkward and laboured.
Seminary Boy
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The acting from the four members of the cast is adequate, but the real problem is the plodding pace of the script and the somewhat laboured dialogue.
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Forswonck and forswatt) ouerlaboured and sunneburnt.
Shepheardes Calendar
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Everything about director, Steven Brill's movie, smacks of desperation, though, given the laboured quality of most of the jokes, and the overall lack of subtlety.
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If there is severe difficulty in breathing - shortness of breath, wheezing, laboured, rapid or shallow breathing.
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That looked to be it as the sides laboured under the burning sun, but the encounter exploded in the closing 10 minutes.
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Sometimes, they are more distraction than narrative thread and the need to return to them often bogs the author down; there are, after all, only so many ways to describe the feel of carved wood and only so many times such an image can be made to work as a symbol of patinated memory without the reader feeling that a point is being laboured.
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal
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The chairman, Bob Hardcastle, was a rotund man in his sixties, with a heavy chest, his laboured voice rising in pitch animated by the excitement of the correspondence before him.
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Sweden certain English clergymen, who laboured there with great success.
A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient)
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I was in fifth gear at the time and the swerve was slow and laboured.
Times, Sunday Times
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My strongest memory of him is the sound of his laboured breathing.
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Too long has the free world laboured under the leadership (so-called) of knaves, nymphos and knuckle-heads.
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'Ease and simplicity, an even flow of unlaboured diction, and an artless arrangement of obvious sentiments' is the ideal to be striven for.
Yet Again
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From his slow walk and laboured breathing, Ginny realized he was far from well.
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They laboured against an equally unimpressive Norwich.
The Sun
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Her hair is a real and unlaboured ornament to her.
Sir Charles Grandison
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While her face crinkles into a laboured smirk, her sad eyes say more than words ever could.
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That Piece of Ground lay for some Years unlaboured; and trenching it, the Gardner found them, which affrighted him the
Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
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He laboured under the constant misapprehension that nobody liked him.
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This was a laboured sitcom peopled by stereotypical characters in unlikely plots.
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At his first public showing in 1860, his prints were called laboured, soft, and flacid, more like dry-point etchings than burin work, and he was advised to adhere to the established rules of his art.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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I've written before about how his laboured breathing was one of the few things I remember of him.
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My strongest memory of him is the sound of his laboured breathing.
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He laughed at first, but his chortles became increasingly laboured as the day wore on.
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She was sixty-four years of age, and laboured under scirrhus of the breast.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
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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.
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Most of the album involves piano/vocal-led compositions that seem monotonous, laboured and uninspired.
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This was a laboured sitcom peopled by stereotypical characters in unlikely plots.
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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
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Her breathing became more and more laboured.
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The peasant laboured for a mere pittance.
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Choose a field of research, and Aristotle laboured in it; pick an area of human endeavour, and Aristotle discoursed upon it.
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When the party broke up slightly we retired to the living room to talk loudly over the sound of my father's laboured drunken snoring as he'd once more collapsed open-mouthed into his chair.
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Now, both these two words, 'laboured' and 'much,' are extremely emphatic.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
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From his slow walk and laboured breathing, Ginny realized he was far from well.
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In many a laboured scene of the wannest humour and of the most affecting passion I have seen the best actors disconcerted, while these buzzing muscatos have been fluttering round their eyes and ears.
The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield
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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
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When the party broke up slightly we retired to the living room to talk loudly over the sound of my father's laboured drunken snoring as he'd once more collapsed open-mouthed into his chair.
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That prohibition equalled profits was a point laboured to exhaustion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jokes are laboured and belaboured; situations are overindulged and run to exhaustion before they end.
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This one had manoeuvred itself into an exposed position and was climbing in a laboured manner up a twisted, dry vine that was coming away from the tree.
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Although they laboured under the unfavourable conditions, they fulfilled the plan.
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Almost all working free women of colour laboured in towns, as tavern-keepers and innkeepers, petty retailers, seamstresses, laundresses, and domestics.
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Short stories whose characters had turned to wood, essays which had refused to come to a point, poems in which laboured craftsmanship had numbed and weakened the original impact of beauty – all these presented themselves to my inverted brain in their finished form, masterly, unsmutched and point-device.
Try Anything Twice
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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
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Master Doctor, seeing himselfe to bee in such an abhominable stinking place, laboured with all his utmost endevour, to get himself released thence: but the more he contended and strove for getting forth, he plunged himselfe the further in, being most pitifully myred from head to foot, sighing and sorrowing extraordinarily, because much of the foule water entred in at his mouth.
The Decameron
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There's simply no way around the system: it's pedantic, laboured and mind-numbingly frustrating.
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From his slow walk and laboured breathing, Ginny realized he was far from well.
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It's all very well to give young people their chance, but they should have laboured a bit in the parliamentary vineyard.
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Nigel Twiston-Davies's imposing six-year-old produced one or two lethargic jumps, and then a particularly laboured effort at the final fence handed victory to Vodka Bleu.
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Her laboured and forced English accent, and disappointing performances from the rest of the cast, say a lot about the director's capabilities.
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He then launches into a laboured attempt to show us what happens next by drawing on the history of oil in Kuwait.
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Then (in Roger's vision) he could see the garlanded bibliopole turning to the expectant audience, giving his trailing gown a deft rearward kick as the ladies do on the stage, and uttering, without hesitation or embarrassment, with due interpolation of graceful pleasantry, that learned and unlaboured discourse on the delights of bookishness that he had often dreamed of.
The Haunted Bookshop
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His breathing was laboured, and he could hardly speak.
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This patient had been induced for maternal hypertension and had laboured well with a Pit drip and had a spontaneous vertex delivery without an episiotomy.
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The dancers, in many cases, produced laboured performances.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then (in Roger's vision) he could see the garlanded bibliopole turning to the expectant audience, giving his trailing gown a deft rearward kick as the ladies do on the stage, and uttering, without hesitation or embarrassment, with due interpolation of graceful pleasantry, that learned and unlaboured discourse on the delights of bookishness that he had often dreamed of.
The Haunted Bookshop
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Paramedics said she had a weak pulse and laboured breathing, and relatives were told she only had hours to live.
The Sun
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The Saints laboured to a 27-21 victory over Exeter on Saturday, which featured a spirited fightback from the Chiefs, who scored two tries in the last quarter of an hour, having trailed 27-9.
Northampton want Stephen Myler and Shane Geraghty to sign new deals
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To say they were outclassed would be an injustice, but to say their efforts were more laboured is a necessary concession to Galway.
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But it was a laboured effort, and Armstrong found the strength to respond, passing Ullrich and taking Basso with him.
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Despite the grumblings of some, they are unlikely to depart with their manager who yesterday seemed heavily laboured by his current predicament.
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For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.
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The debilitating effect of unlaboured-for wealth lies, then, not in the nature of any material adjunct to life in itself, but in the power it may possess of robbing the individual of all incentive to exertion, thus destroying the intellectual, the physical, and finally, the moral fibre.
Woman and Labour
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The flare-up became apparent in his laboured performances towards the end of the season.
Times, Sunday Times
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So that it would appear that there is in Rubens 'style of colouring an original incompleteness, destructive in part of the naturalness he would aim at; it is a mannerism, very tolerable in such light works as those lucid and charming pictures by Teniers where all is light and unlaboured; but becoming a weakness where the other labour and the subject are important.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
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Neither of these Premierleague stragglers excelled yesterday, you may be unsurprised to here, but, United laboured less than Aberdeen.
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Daniel's few encounters with Gold had been characterized by a laboured politeness.
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His breathing was painful and laboured, his brow wet with perspiration.
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Trenches and low walls of earth braced with wooden beams zig-zagged their way across the fields to where troops laboured at raising bulwarks against rifle fire.
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Washington, 1897, pp. 177-196; Rev.P. de Roo, who laboured for several years on the "Regesta" of Alexander VI; Heywood, who compiled the "Documenta selecta e tabulario Sanctæ Sedis, insulas et terras anno 1492 repertas a Christophoro Columbo respicientia", which he published in phototype in 1892.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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The description of the first meeting of Laura and Petrarch is perhaps the best, because the most simple and unlaboured part of his works.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
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Forth and Clyde Canal; laboured as a weaver in several towns in the counties of Forfar and Kincardine; and conducted unendowed schools in various localities.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
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[14] We have laboured to preserve his delightful air of antiqueness, which is singularly appropriate to the Saint's work.
Treatise on the Love of God
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They will see that they have laboured for the wind, when, at death, they find the profit of their labour is all gone like the wind, they know not whither.
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For Alfred society was divided three ways; beadsmen prayed, warriors fought and workmen laboured, each a necessary, distinct class.
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If there is severe difficulty in breathing - shortness of breath, wheezing, laboured, rapid or shallow breathing.
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And all three ended up being substituted during this laboured performance.
The Sun
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Blockbusters may come and go, but when you see a lower-budget debut feature film, even if it turns out to be the laboured work of a tortured soul, you can be sure that its very existence means the world to somebody somewhere.
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They would have it thought that the commonalty was against him, and therefore laboured to get him cried down by a multitude, and it is no hard matter to pack a mob; whereas, if a fair poll had been granted, I doubt not but it would have been carried by a great majority for the releasing of him.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.
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So his fluidity is really hard to imitate if you have a more awkward, laboured relationship with the pen and brush.
Archive 2009-12-01
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For a portable and convenient inhalant put one drop each of the same oils on a tissue or handkerchief and inhale whenever needed to ease laboured breathing and a stuffy nose.
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I had long laboured under the misapprehension that to be the subject of a tribute you had to either be dead, have done something worthwhile or have reached a milestone in a certain profession.
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Mendelson shuffles around looking catatonically depressed and uttering his lines in a laboured and difficult way.
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But it was evident from the laboured performance by Carlo Ancelotti's side that the title nerves are beginning to take hold.
Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines
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On a day, Massetto having laboured somewhat extraordinarily, lay downe to rest himselfe awhile under the trees, and two delicate yong Nunnes, walking there to take the aire, drew neere to the place where he dissembled sleeping; and both of them observing his comelinesse of person, began to pitty the poverty of his condition; but much more the misery of his great defectes.
The Decameron
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Cats with asthma typically cough with their necks stretched out and their front legs tucked in, but sometimes the only symptom is faster or laboured breathing.
Times, Sunday Times
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At a walk his gait was awkward and laboured.
Seminary Boy
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As for Win Jenkins, she has undergone a perfect metamurphysis, and is become a new creeter from the ammunition of Humphry Clinker, our new footman, a pious young man, who has laboured exceedingly, that she may bring forth fruits of repentance.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Or else, the productions crumbled under the weight of laboured interpretations.
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New Zealand preparations included an ultimately easy victory over Wales, a laboured success against France, and a narrow loss to the team of the moment and World Cup favourites England.
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It would have been all too easy for LeBlanc to have played this book for sentiment and shocked social justice; her tone is blunt and unlaboured.
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The fitters laboured to modify the jeeps for desert travel and to a completely novel specification.
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In the decline of li&, he took the mo - nastic habit, in a Benedictine abbey, which he bad richly en - dowed, wheve be laboured to acpiate the tins of his secuhir Ufc.
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical
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New Zealand preparations included an ultimately easy victory over Wales, a laboured success against France, and a narrow loss to the team of the moment and World Cup favourites England.
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They laboured up the steps of one of the many pedestrian footbridges crossing Sukhummvit Road.
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He laboured under the constant misapprehension that nobody liked him.
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As we should say, she "laboured" the Cardinal de Retz.
In a Green Shade A Country Commentary
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At first no sound broke the stillness of the night, save the laboured breathing of the weary runners and the strokes of their leathern cothurni upon the hard ground; but soon other noises came to mingle with these and, at last, to drown them: the lowing of thousands of cattle, now scattered far and wide over the plain and hillsides, and then the distant clash of arms and the cries of combatants.
The Lion's Brood
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He began in 1630 with a prose tract, the Hero, laboured in short ingenious sentences, which went through six editions.
The Spectator, Volume 2.
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Protestantism in the Rhineland, and by school and pulpit laboured to re-Catholicize the Empire, Rome spurred Mary Stuart to the Darnley marriage, urged Philip to march Alva on the Netherlands, broke up the religious truce which Catharine had won for France, and celebrated with solemn pomp the massacre of the Huguenots.
History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8)
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Where their rucking had been crisp and brutal last term, this time out it was hesitant and laboured.
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It might say something about the team's standing when a laboured display without guile or energy could be one of their better performances.
Times, Sunday Times
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Symptoms of HCN poisoning are due to oxygen starvation at the cellular level and include laboured breathing (dyspnoea), intense red conjunctive, frothing at the mouth, bloat, convulsions and a staggering gait.
Chapter 4
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Yet, excepting the watch, he kept every man so busy as might be, some bringing weed to keep up a fire which he had lit near the boat; one to help him turn and hold the batten upon which he laboured; and two he sent across to the wreck of the mast, to detach one of the futtock shrouds, which (as is most rare) were made of iron rods.
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
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He was old, and his breath laboured; there was a faint smell about him, of damp wool, of poultices, of cough linctus and piety.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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I was his elder by half a year, and "sapped" very hard, while he laboured little; so that it will be plain at a glance, although he never acknowledged it, that he was the better endowed of the two with natural ability.
George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore
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His breathing was laboured, and he could hardly speak.
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For a portable and convenient inhalant put 1 drop each of the same oils on a tissue or handkerchief and inhale them whenever needed to ease laboured breathing and a stuffy nose.
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On the land the peasant cultivated his own plot with his own implements; in the town the handicraftsman laboured primarily at least on his own account.
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The waves were strong, The Heart of Isis laboured heavily and the men were tested sorely, but by nightfall they had cleared the island without finding safe harbor.
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But it was a laboured effort, and Armstrong found the strength to respond, passing Ullrich and taking Basso with him.
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Her breathing was heavy and laboured.
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As churchman, he upheld ecclesiastical discipline in Italy and Dalmatia, maintained authority in the vicariate of Illyricum, restructured the dioceses of his dwindling patriarchate, and laboured to convert Jews and pagan rustics.
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I am no fan of laboured expositions and the pat wisdoms dispensed by many academic writers on this subject.
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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
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On Saturday, John Paul slept in his old bed, visited his old street and drove by the quarry, no longer used, where he laboured during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
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The horses laboured up the steep slope.
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For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.
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Mendelson shuffles around looking catatonically depressed and uttering his lines in a laboured and difficult way.
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At the latter laboured quite a company of girls and some men.
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The disgusting picture of a woman who pretends zeal for the happiness of Africa, and is constantly employed in securing a life of misery to her own children, is a laboured work of art in his present exhibition.
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Everything about director, Steven Brill's movie, smacks of desperation, though, given the laboured quality of most of the jokes, and the overall lack of subtlety.
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The fairy asked Puck if he was not the knavish spirit that frightened the maidens of the villagery, that skimmed milk, and sometimes laboured in the green, and bootless made the housewife churn, and sometimes made the drink to bear no barm, and whether Puck did not mislead night wanderers, and then laugh at their harm, and do the work of hobgoblins?
The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
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Again, for the degrees and comparative nature of good, they have also excellently handled it in their triplicity of good, in the comparisons between a contemplative and an active life, in the distinction between virtue with reluctation and virtue secured, in their encounters between honesty and profit, in their balancing of virtue with virtue, and the like; so as this part deserveth to be reported for excellently laboured.
The Advancement of Learning
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He had tried to rule as an absolute monarch presiding over a centralised bureaucracy and suppressing nationalist ambitions (especially those of Hungary) among the ill-assorted races of his unwieldy empire; changing times had forced him into reluctant concessions, but his reactionary nature and passion for the detail of administration, over which he laboured conscientiously, had blinded him to those greater issues which he had neither the vision nor the temperament to understand.
Watershed
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While they philosophized about it he was living it, placing the strong hand of his race firmly on the shoulders of the lesser breeds that laboured on Berande or menaced it from afar.
Chapter 15
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My arms grew heavy and my breathing laboured.
A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
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The horses laboured up the steep slope.
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This was a laboured sitcom peopled by stereotypical characters in unlikely plots.
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We laboured hard to finish our job ahead of schedule.
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While her face crinkles into a laboured smirk, her sad eyes say more than words ever could.
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[369] Father Forest hath laboured divers manner of ways to expulse Father
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)
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It would have been all too easy for her to have played this book for sentiment and shocked social justice; her tone is blunt and unlaboured.
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With one exception, and that doubtful -- for a man may be weak and may not be brave without being a bad man or even king -- every bearer of this fated name laboured with courage and constancy at the great work of elevating his country.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
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Nigel Twiston-Davies's imposing six-year-old produced one or two lethargic jumps, and then a particularly laboured effort at the final fence handed victory to Vodka Bleu.
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The translator found the corruption 'bataille' for 'taille.' for they were neither angels nor spirits, but men formed to the similitude of their lords, saying why should they then be kept so under like beasts; the which they said they would no longer suffer, for they would be all one, and if they laboured or did anything for their lords, they would have wages therefor as well as other.
The Chronicles of Froissart
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Many have laboured, lost their footing and fallen in a bid to dramatise Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, a herculean tale of thwarted love, haunted hearts and man's capacity for bonhomie and inhumanity during the first world war.
Grace Dent: Birdsong
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Jokes are laboured and belaboured; situations are overindulged and run to exhaustion before they end.
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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
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My painfully laboured novel only got honourable mention, and my comedietta was lost in the post.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
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After we'd eaten we walked back along the canal in the sunshine and laboured up the hill before collapsing in front of the TV.
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At its worst, such work can now seem dated, its jokes laboured, its whimsies arch.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Blockbusters may come and go, but when you see a lower-budget debut feature film, even if it turns out to be the laboured work of a tortured soul, you can be sure that its very existence means the world to somebody somewhere.
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I am no fan of laboured expositions and the pat wisdoms dispensed by many academic writers on this subject.
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It would also be a somewhat laboured extension of a self-parodying comic persona of which I am becoming increasingly weary.
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Accordingly, when such great alarms surrounded them on every side, and it became apparent to all that the Roman name laboured not only under hatred with their enemies, but under contempt also with their allies; it was resolved that the state should be defended under the same auspices, as those under which it had been recovered, and that Marcus Furius should be nominated dictator.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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We sincerely trust to hear that Butler has been superseded; but certain laboured attempts which have been made to explain away some of the wickedness of his ferocious edict do not seem to point in the desirable direction.
London, Saturday, June 21, 1862
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I loved him so much, and it would kill me to see him grunting and struggling as he laboured to move himself from the bed to the chair.
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And these hapless people whose gaiety at first had been so peaceful, at length belaboured each other soundly.
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In the latter Benavente is an enchanting master because of his unlaboured wit and comic verve, his radiant good nature, and his grace, which combines all these qualities.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1922 - Presentation Speech
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Book of Edgar, Bede's 'Ecclesiastical History' -- in the Cathedral library -- and the exquisitely illuminated 'benedictional' of St. Æthelwold possessed by the Duke of Devonshire, all these were produced before the end of the tenth century by the artists who laboured so patiently in the
The Book-Hunter at Home
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We (royal again) reinstated most of the lawn areas last year from over-ambitious but failed vegetable plots and currently the direction of the mown stripes is being laboured over, this in true Alan Clark motte and bailey style.
40 entries from May 2007
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As we were having this jamboree, her breathing became more laboured and she made a moaning noise.
Times, Sunday Times
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He laboured up the hill with his heavy load.
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‘I'm a tourist, not a terrorist,’ was my increasingly laboured refrain.
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Neither am I. ' The man stood up, however, leaning heavily on a thick blackthorn cane, and laboured himself across the room.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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She laboured under the illusion that I knew what I was doing.
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The pacing at times could have been a little more frantic as some of the humour became somewhat laboured.
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Sure, the profile questions were laboured and tricksy, but they either gave way to genuine honesty or exposed pretension; you could just tell when a person was straining to be winsome.
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One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.
Archibald V. Hill - Nobel Lecture
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I've heard 'em at Kabul before the Retreat, at Cawnpore, on the heights above the North Valley at Balaclava, and I won't swear someone wasn't croaking them as we laboured up the Greasy Grass slope. behind G.A. Custer, God rest his fat-headed soul.
Watershed
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While they philosophized about it he was living it, placing the strong hand of his race firmly on the shoulders of the lesser breeds that laboured on Berande or menaced it from afar.
Chapter 15
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It laboured up the hills as we climbed to nearly 2000m.
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But, to confess to you the truth, the works and passages in which I have succeeded, have uniformly been written with the greatest rapidity; and when I have seen some of these placed in opposition with others, and commended as more highly finished, I could appeal to pen and standish, that the parts in which I have come feebly off, were by much the more laboured.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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The 85 minutes of laboured monologues and unconvincing heroism are as entertaining as a pet's funeral.
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Let it be," said Cadfael placatingly, seeing how the boy laboured at the thing he could not understand.
A River So Long
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This record aims to unsettle and carries off its stilted and discordant sound without appearing laboured.
The Sun
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He laboured under many disabilities, such as the merchet or fine for marrying his daughter, and fines for selling horse or ox.
A Short History of English Agriculture
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The boy laboured quietly.
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Any joke gets pretty thin when belaboured and you guys are definitely overdoing it.
Quick crossword No 12,691
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Laboured and formulaic, he responded lamely to the early questions by immediately conceding to MPs from all sides of the House just how important was the point they were raising.
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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
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They laboured with enthusiasm and imagination and showed tolerance towards interfering children who hopped and skipped around, getting in the way.
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Dalton turned suddenly round; the entire expression of his countenance softened, and his firm-set lips opened, as if a word laboured to come forth, and was retained only by an effort.
The Buccaneer A Tale
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With the couteau croche, the crooked knife of the North, Dick laboured slowly, fashioning with care the long tamarack strips.
The Silent Places
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His breathing was laboured, and he could hardly speak.
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His voice has lost some of its gloss and his use of the microphone was more laboured too.
Times, Sunday Times
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And these hapless people whose gaiety at first had been so peaceful, at length belaboured each other soundly.
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Toole's mother then took on the task of trying to find a publisher for the book on which her son had laboured so hard.
