English example sentences with "labored"

The car labored up the hill.

He labored to complete the work.

They labored over the budget for the fiscal year 1997.

They labored in the factories.

They labored like slaves.

They labored day after day.

It would have to be something like this: And God will say to me: "You are a failure. What was your mission? Why your laughter?" I will reply "I comforted the slaves who labored." And God will hark, and weep thereafter.

Tom's breathing was labored.

The creaking of the masts; the straining and groaning of bulkheads, as the ship labored in the weltering sea, were frightful.

The team of choreographers labored over designing a routine.

Mary needed something to bring to Tom's potluck, so she bought a box of frozen plantains and microwaved them. Then she brought them to the potluck and pretended she had labored over them for hours.

As a result of burnout, my submissions to the magazine became increasingly labored and vacuous.

The workers labored all day long to finish the construction.

The first attempt to fire up the Large Hadron Collider failed, so the second, successful attempt was greeted with a palpable sense of relief and even giddiness from the many physicists who have labored for more than two decades to get this 10-billion-dollar experiment underway.

We labored up a hill.