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
Hitting “Buy Now” on a pair of pants I spent a month laboriously price tracking will simply never hit the same.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2025
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
When I touched the edge of the landing, I laboriously sat up and levered myself down the stairs one at a time, too weak to walk.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
