belabor

Example Sentences

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I made sure they knew I wasn’t interested in belaboring the crime and that I wasn’t trying to sensationalize what happened to her.

From Los Angeles Times

For the sake of belabored argument, though, let’s say your mistakes are bigger than you make them out to be, and his responses are kinder and more proportionate.

From Washington Post

But because he doesn’t belabor his ideas, he also doesn’t linger visually.

From New York Times

Thinking of works like theirs, and a singular performance like Comer’s, I won’t belabor the compromises of “Prima Facie.”

From New York Times

If that sounds like a pat irony on paper, it doesn’t play that way onscreen, in part because Zlotowski, taking her cues from her heroine, belabors nothing.

From Los Angeles Times