laboriously

Example Sentences

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Each was a career politician who spent decades laboriously climbing the government rungs before being elected governor.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

I suppose I could disable all these notices, laboriously one by one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 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

They were moving laboriously over the tumbled and broken rocks toward the foot of the slope.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman