laboring

Example Sentences

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Laboring to finish a set of shoulder pull-downs, he succeeded only after his workout whisperer weighed in.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2025

Laboring women have always had to fight on two fronts at once.

From Slate • Aug. 24, 2021

Laboring to be poetic, it was merely sophomoric, troweling on cliche with such abandon that I found myself wondering if the libretto was deliberately trying to evoke the banality of Marnie’s world.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2018

“In these places, the filth is allowed to accumulate to an extent almost incredible,” reported Dr. John Griscom in his 1845 account The Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of New York.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Laboring men were needed to dig the canal and lay the tracks.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield