laborious

Example Sentences

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After a laborious setup of some 40 minutes, Blanc finally starts nosing around the scene.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was a laborious process that naturally also missed a lot of detail.

From BBC

“The word ‘relentless’ keeps coming up, as just how expensive, laborious, the process is on top of working in a field that can lead to burnout, secondary trauma.”

From Seattle Times

I made this mistake a few times back in the day, and it's laborious and unpleasant, resulting in crispy, delicious bacon being hamstrung by pieces of paper towel that feel impossible to remove.

From Salon

While to me, shelling pistachios always felt like a bit of a laborious process — and so they were never my favorite snack — for as long as I can remember, my dad was obsessed with pistachios.

From Salon