labored
Example Sentences
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In many years on dairy farms, the worker often labored for 10 hours with no breaks.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
The Eastern District of California said the time it spent reviewing her alleged misconduct was a “waste of limited time and judicial resources in a district that has labored under a longstanding caseload crisis.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Araceli Molar de Barrios labored in the fields for nearly 30 years after arriving in the U.S. in 1995, two years after Chavez’s death.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026
For 15 years, Carter labored in the Valley of the Kings on the banks of the Nile opposite modern-day Luxor, seeking a pharaoh’s tomb that hadn’t been robbed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
No morning breezes cooled Lupita as she labored in the same field as the day before.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
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