LABORIOUS in a Sentence
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34 example sentences for LABORIOUS, such as:
1. But it was a slow, laborious process.
2. This march became more and more laborious.
3. She was cynical about the joys of a simple laborious life.
4. Collecting the raw materials proved a long and laborious task.
5. Before him stretched the long, laborious road, dry, empty, and white.
2. This march became more and more laborious.
3. She was cynical about the joys of a simple laborious life.
4. Collecting the raw materials proved a long and laborious task.
5. Before him stretched the long, laborious road, dry, empty, and white.
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Meanings and Examples of LABORIOUS
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laborious
a. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1 She was cynical about the joys of a simple laborious life.
2 The ship's company being reduced to but a handful, the captain called upon the Islanders to assist him in the laborious business of heaving down the ship to stop the leak.
3 For that business is an exceedingly laborious one; is not very soon completed; and requires all hands to set about it.
4 Edna had intended to be indifferent and as reserved as he when she met him; she had reached the determination by a laborious train of reasoning, incident to one of her despondent moods.
5 The course lay up the ascent, and still continued hazardous and laborious.
6 This old faubourg, peopled like an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
7 My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most laborious of lives.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
8 All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population of Paris.
9 This march became more and more laborious.
10 The young man was constantly employed out of doors, and the girl in various laborious occupations within.
11 I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition.
12 When she had entered two or three laborious items in the account-book, Jip would walk over the page, wagging his tail, and smear them all out.
13 But it was a slow, laborious process.
14 Before him stretched the long, laborious road, dry, empty, and white.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
15 She first reached Wildeve's Patch, as it was called, a plot of land redeemed from the heath, and after long and laborious years brought into cultivation.
Example Sentence:
1 In putting together his dictionary of the English language, Doctor Johnson undertook a laborious task.
2 Collecting the raw materials proved a long and laborious task.
3 I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.