laboriously
Example Sentences
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While traveling in Algeria in 2019, I took notes while watching women laboriously preparing couscous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
The garden's collection has been laboriously reassembled after it had perished during World War II -- through decades of purchases, exchanges and numerous scientific missions that took Ivannikov's senior colleagues across several continents.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a “human computer,” laboriously measuring the positions and brightness of thousands of stars on photographic plates.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
Once upon a time, alpinists laboriously hacked steps into it — literal stairways to heaven.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
Then Breashears offered his expedition’s supply of oxygen—fifty canisters that had been laboriously carried to 26,000 feet—to the ailing climbers and would-be rescuers on the Col.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
