Synonym: heavy, labored, strained. Similar words: labourer, labour, fall about, mill about, labour saving, labour of love, labored, division of labour. Meaning: ['leɪbə(r)d] adj. 1. lacking natural ease 2. requiring or showing effort.
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31. Although they laboured under the unfavourable conditions, they fulfilled the plan.
32. Daniel's few encounters with Gold had been characterized by a laboured politeness.
33. For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.
34. His breathing laboured, loud as a stag's in rut.
35. He laboured at the problem.
36. I laboured to understand him.
37. They laboured to make the empire internally consistent.
38. Every Noisegate hallucination has clearly been meticulously laboured over.
39. Schmidt laboured behind her; she could hear his grunts of effort.
40. The fitters laboured to modify the jeeps for desert travel and to a completely novel specification.
41. An old Ford, with straight back and matchbox rear window,(http://sentencedict.com/laboured.html) laboured up the avenue.
42. I am no fan of laboured expositions and the pat wisdoms dispensed by many academic writers on this subject.
43. Grandma laboured for years with her frames and turned out all the mats for the house.
44. As Lambert laboured to get back on course another blast flung him lopsided.
45. United were too liberal with their marking and Lee Clark laboured the point. 7 minutes later, they took overall control.
46. From Sunday lunch-time to breakfast today, their mountain of prevaricating committees have laboured without bringing forth even a mouse.
47. They laboured with enthusiasm and imagination and showed tolerance towards interfering children who hopped and skipped around, getting in the way.
48. The van laboured its way up the final stretch of the brae, its engine protesting at the strain.
49. The prosecution laboured long on the amount of time the whittling had taken which therefore proved considerable premeditation.
50. The boy laboured quietly.
51. If this was his attempt to give Chloe a radical new dynamism, it was all too laboured to succeed.
52. Highly gregarious, and collectively noisy, they fly fast and direct, but often with rather laboured wing-beats and in V-formation.
53. The goal was just what the team needed, at the end of a game in which they had laboured hard to overcome Chelsea.
54. If there is severe difficulty in breathing - shortness of breath, wheezing, laboured, rapid or shallow breathing.
55. Sheffield is a city where steel-workers once laboured in their thousands.
56. The jokes are coarse and laboured, the blokes have pulped copies of Loaded for brains.
57. You have laboured up an unending hill with heavy feet which are swollen, sore and tired.
58. Substantial puddings like these were once a vital fuel and restorative for those who laboured in the fields.
59. For three weeks the country laboured under the worst floods in living memory.
60. He observed that his daughter was heavily sedated and that her breathing was extremely laboured.
More similar words: labourer, labour, fall about, mill about, labour saving, labour of love, labored, division of labour, labor, about, belabor, go about, abound, get about, labor day, come about, set about, care about, know about, elaborate, labor force, laborious, look about, talk about, mess about, be about to, forget about, hang about, cast about, just about.