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

Kochu Maria sawed up the rest of the cake messily, laboriously, breathing through her mouth, as though she was carving a hunk of roast lamb.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy