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Examples of laboured
laboured
In fact, it's all a bit ponderous and laboured, passes slow and lacking in snap.
From the guardian.co.uk
Laboured as that argument may be, there are costs associated with voter-ID laws.
From the economist.com
A game of genuine skill and drama has been let down by laboured TV presentation.
From the guardian.co.uk
We just stood there, our laboured breathing the only sound in the frozen forest.
From the nzherald.co.nz
They then settled down to watch the modern Stoke turn in a laboured performance.
From the express.co.uk
At about 6am, three hours after her overdose, Lynn's breathing became laboured.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The Italians, as has been laboured all week, are Europe's leading set piece side.
From the nzherald.co.nz
I had laboured for 10 hours, but now, instead of a head, I felt something bony.
From the guardian.co.uk
I felt the script was somewhat flat, and the setups laboured and often pointless.
From the guardian.co.uk
- A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
- Tug: strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
- Productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
- Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
- Parturiency: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
- Undergo the efforts of childbirth
- There are a number of Spanish units of measurement of length or area that are now virtually obsolete. They include the vara, the cordel, the league and the labor. The units of area used to express the area of land are still encountered in some transactions in land today. ...
- Childbirth (also called labour, birth, partus or parturition) is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus. ...
- Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the market for labour. Labour markets function through the interaction of workers and employers. ...
