belabor

Example Sentences

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Not to belabor the point, but Don’t Panic.

From Scientific American

And they are all presented, in a belabored game-recognize-game metaphor, as players: The principal characters are given old-school avatars, and the movie’s many international locations are delineated using primitive video graphics.

From Los Angeles Times

The action begins to drag, the twists get more belabored and what played at first like a gleefully unapologetic exploitation-movie exercise threatens to become a late-breaking morality play.

From Los Angeles Times

I’m leaving out myriad details that are belabored in extraneous musical numbers.

From Los Angeles Times

“You want to edit the footage in a way that makes the point but doesn’t belabor the point,” Whitaker said in an interview.

From Washington Post