laboriously
Example Sentences
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While traveling in Algeria in 2019, I took notes while watching women laboriously preparing couscous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
The garden's collection has been laboriously reassembled after it had perished during World War II -- through decades of purchases, exchanges and numerous scientific missions that took Ivannikov's senior colleagues across several continents.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
Hitting “Buy Now” on a pair of pants I spent a month laboriously price tracking will simply never hit the same.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2025
She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a “human computer,” laboriously measuring the positions and brightness of thousands of stars on photographic plates.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
From her not-much-of-a-hiding place Lyra watched as the Master went to a large oak wardrobe in the corner of the room, took his gown from a hanger, and pulled it laboriously on.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
