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Sentence Examples Too long has the free world laboured under the leadership of knaves, nymphos and knuckle-heads. The 85 minutes of laboured monologues and unconvincing heroism are as entertaining as a pet's funeral. Her laboured and forced English accent, and disappointing performances from the rest of the cast, say a lot about the director's capabilities. I've written before about how his laboured breathing was one of the few things I remember of him. While her face crinkles into a laboured smirk, her sad eyes say more than words ever could. He then launches into a laboured attempt to show us what happens next by drawing on the history of oil in Kuwait. They have not laboured in the vineyard long enough to accept the dynamics of the struggle that he has been engaged in. In these books she laboured the point tenaciously that women were superior in all things. Having laboured a part of the way, suddenly and most unexpectedly, the heavens open up. In spite of advancing years and not too robust health, he laboured strenuously until the state of his health made it necessary for him to retire. To say they were outclassed would be an injustice, but to say their efforts were more laboured is a necessary concession to Galway. It was simply that the play rather laboured the point at times and was, in truth, simply too long. It's all very well to give young people their chance, but they should have laboured a bit in the parliamentary vineyard. I loved him so much, and it would kill me to see him grunting and struggling as he laboured to move himself from the bed to the chair. Toole's mother then took on the task of trying to find a publisher for the book on which her son had laboured so hard. In his book of laboured and often twisted arguments, the far-left philosopher validly makes this point along with countless invalid ones. He laughed at first, but his chortles became increasingly laboured as the day wore on. Despite the grumblings of some, they are unlikely to depart with their manager who yesterday seemed heavily laboured by his current predicament. Neither of these Premierleague stragglers excelled yesterday, you may be unsurprised to here, but, United laboured less than Aberdeen. One of six children, his father worked a small farm and laboured for the county council to make ends meet. Show More Sentences That looked to be it as the sides laboured under the burning sun, but the encounter exploded in the closing 10 minutes. Men who were expert in underground siege methods laboured to outwit each other in subterranean passages known as mines and countermines. But it was a laboured effort, and Armstrong found the strength to respond, passing Ullrich and taking Basso with him. He sagely laboured to reduce the miniaturization of the Cold War and prevent nuclear conflict between the East and West. Where their rucking had been crisp and brutal last term, this time out it was hesitant and laboured. They both laboured to earn enough to take a lease on a small farm at Gumeracha, near Adelaide, but the land was poor and the rainfall scant. The pacing at times could have been a little more frantic as some of the humour became somewhat laboured. From then on, generations of disciples laboured with hand tools to hew giant temples, intricate statues and monasteries of up to three storeys. They laboured up the steps of one of the many pedestrian footbridges crossing Sukhummvit Road. Farmers have laboured all hours this week in a bid to recover their harvest in an interval of unexpected dry weather and glorious sunshine. Or else, the productions crumbled under the weight of laboured interpretations. Chances are, the one-man band in question will have laboured over the project, in his unheated shed, for years and years. Mendelson shuffles around looking catatonically depressed and uttering his lines in a laboured and difficult way. For a portable and convenient inhalant put one drop each of the same oils on a tissue or handkerchief and inhale whenever needed to ease laboured breathing and a stuffy nose. The acting from the four members of the cast is adequate, but the real problem is the plodding pace of the script and the somewhat laboured dialogue. Men who have climbed a gyrating mast to furl a sail in a storm or have laboured at the helm in rough seas will never underestimate the power of the sea. Crows cawed about the gullies, flaunting their power of flight as I laboured sweatily in the morning sun. His cousins say he was a hard worker, who laboured as fruit picker for various companies in the area. He laboured over the distinction between two kinds of action: sign action, or semiosis, and dynamic, or mechanical, action. The dancers can barely animate their costumes and the show as a whole is as laboured as the panto horse's caperings. Show More Sentences Seek no dominion even over those fields wherein you have laboured, and you are, by my definition, a fieldworker. As England laboured past Austria, 3,808 FC United fans saw the club drub Daisy Hill 6-0 and go six points clear atop North West Counties Two. For a whole year, in the days of long ago, a hermit and his helper had laboured mightily to build the hermitage from the stones scattered around. They will see that they have laboured for the wind, when, at death, they find the profit of their labour is all gone like the wind, they know not whither. It is now 6 years that we have laboured together in S. E. Asia and we plan to go again in the Spring next year. In bluegill sunfish, the sublethal effects were loss of equilibrium, laboured respiration, lying on the bottom and quiescence. Typical signs of botulism are ruffled fur, pinching of the waist, laboured breathing, limb paresis and general paralysis prior to death. His breathing was painful and laboured, his brow wet with perspiration. Sergio Ramos laboured in defensive midfield while Gareth Bale, having just returned from a calf injury, was peripheral. Then came their Swedish breakthrough, though the band still laboured under the cumbersome name of Björn and Benny, Agnetha and Anni-Frid. It is tempting to wonder whether their former club, Real Madrid, might have missed either player as they laboured to a 2-2 drawithth Villarreal. Iain laboured on selecting and revising his poems in what turned out to be his last weeks. Her father was a very active trade union leader, who, as a child, Yessica watched day-and-night as he laboured for his fellow workers. Few, if any, of the men who laboured on the Victoria Bridge had a chance to write down their memories of the time. Throughout the 19th century various inventors had laboured to perfect an endless belt on feet, or a track, for use on vehicles. The proposed procedure for conversion from a fixed-term to a continuing appointment was laboured and confusing. All his life, but particularly after the 1880s, David Ross McCord laboured religiously to build a museum of Canadian history for his country. I heartily commend the government on this move and congratulate all those who laboured long and hard to make it happen. If breathing continues to be laboured, the patient should be given oxygen and referred to a physician. Those who laboured in crafting the new Rule will agree with me that all these legitimate concerns were taken very seriously. Show More Sentences This patient had been induced for maternal hypertension and had laboured well with a Pit drip and had a spontaneous vertex delivery without an episiotomy. And like Mr Sherry, Mr Hillier has laboured for many years and has likewise produced three heavy volumes, the last of which is about to see the light of day in the bookshops. The waves were strong, The Heart of Isis laboured heavily and the men were tested sorely, but by nightfall they had cleared the island without finding safe harbor. Nigel Twiston-Davies's imposing six-year-old produced one or two lethargic jumps, and then a particularly laboured effort at the final fence handed victory to Vodka Bleu. My strongest memory of him is the sound of his laboured breathing. This one had manoeuvred itself into an exposed position and was climbing in a laboured manner up a twisted, dry vine that was coming away from the tree. Everything about director, Steven Brill's movie, smacks of desperation, though, given the laboured quality of most of the jokes, and the overall lack of subtlety. Almost all working free women of colour laboured in towns, as tavern-keepers and innkeepers, petty retailers, seamstresses, laundresses, and domestics. He looked old, his eyes were lustreless, his breathing laboured. Trenches and low walls of earth braced with wooden beams zig-zagged their way across the fields to where Gulf troops laboured at raising bulwarks against rifle fire. For some thirteen years Kentigern laboured in the region, building his church at the Molendinar Burn, and making many converts. During the final decade of his life, De Quincey laboured on a collected edition of his works. Meanwhile, a group of boys laboured to move a herd of about 50 camels from the holding pens to the jetty where they were being hoisted into a large livestock boat. From this point, alas, the exciting prospect of a surrealist heterotopia vanishes and the majority of encounters are founded on realist character detail that is laboured and banal. As his chemists laboured to find the best emulsifiers and flavourings, the world's first non-dairy topping, Delsoy, was creeping from rival nozzles elsewhere in the state. Three points famously proved sufficient for Italy at Spain 1982, when Enzo Bearzot's troops laboured through the group stage with stalemates against Poland, Peru and Cameroon. The inventors who laboured to bring the computer into the world had to learn that the thing they were inventing was not just a number cruncher, not merely a calculator. Like all the Romance languages, it reminds you that English is actually a class-conscious sandwich of two layers: short, pithy Anglo-Saxon, and the more laboured Latinate forms spoken originally by the aristocracy. Does he think it is fair that the report of the defence committee, which he now sits on and which laboured for months and months, was not even looked at by his leader, the Prime Minister? I heartily congratulate Prime Minister Simitis and all the men and women who have laboured alongside him in coordinating and guiding us towards our political and institutional goals. Show More Sentences They have laboured in the heat of the day, and at day's end have taken comfort in the sole thought that they have done what was asked of them by the Lord. At the end of the marathon, her laboured breathing told us she was exhausted. He also expressed an interest in the Irish language, though there is not much evidence that he laboured to learn it. I don't particularly care for the film's moments of laboured symbolism – Saul Bass's spirograph credits for instance, or the celebrated nightmare sequence. Instead, Zaha's trickery and Cassetti's laboured challenge left it to a man who will overtake Ryan Giggs as the oldest outfield player in the Premier League if his loan arrangement is made permanent in the summer. Since then he has laboured to bring together religious leaders. Drawing is frequently laboured and cramped, and you can imagine a man bent over the paper with a pencil or a pair of scissors, his tongue poking from the corner of his mouth and brow furrowed as he concentrates. In the post-Classical era, Ciceronian style came to be regarded as laboured and boring, and an epigrammatic compressed style was preferred by such writers as Seneca and Tacitus. All I'm saying is so far, as far as seeing any evidence of wrongdoing goes, to quote an old aphorism, the elephants laboured and brought out a mouse. There's a whole variety of songs in my repertoire ranging from those I've laboured intensively over and others which just seemed to come naturally, like Gaspard's song, for instance. Tension had built to bursting point as the deadline crept relentlessly closer and delegates laboured feverishly to bridge the remaining differences in the draft final declaration. The symptoms of flufenacet toxicity in rainbow trout were darkened colouration, lying on the bottom of the aquaria, laboured respiration, loss of equilibria, lethargy and quiescence. The hardships of Toronto hip hop are indeed a far cry from the instant musicians and fabricated chart-toppers of mainstream music-this is the laboured genius of the working class. But Mr Glassner's humour is too laboured, his liberal-Democrat soft-heartedness can be too insistent, and his figures for one who is often taking issue with absurd extrapolations are surprisingly vague. A man who conceives and writes a great book, my friend, has done more work than all the helots that laboured on these pyramidal futilities. Symptoms of the disease include fever, depression, decreased feed intake, increased respiratory rate, cough, discharge from the nose and eyes, and, in later stages of the disease, laboured and open-mouthed breathing. Canadians suffered much and laboured hard and long to get rid of that Conservative deficit, and now in two short years the Conservative Party, the government, is bringing Canada back to the brink of a deficit. The workers, crammed into tenements and getting mill fever and bronchitis as they laboured hour after hour, did less well. Nineteenth-century Montreal was a boomtown, but poverty and poor sanitation threatened the health of the growing population that laboured in its new factories. Respiration may be laboured and excessive lacrimation may be seen. Show More Sentences The recreation of the Viking period is very much a game of pageantry and costumery, all of it delivered in a stilted and laboured prose. I wish also to thank all the negotiators who laboured so hard to make sure that we chart a course for the future in a way of which we all can be proud. Br Paredes had laboured for some two years to reach this objective. Until January 1940, he laboured on public works, and then, for health reasons, he was sent to the Dudinsky Permafrost Station, as a geodesist. Yet for long spells Villa looked laboured and devoid of ideas. Do not content yourselves with meer Words and Names, lest your laboured Improvements only amass a heap of unintelligible Phrases, and you feed upon Husks instead of Kernels. For some thirteen years, he laboured in the district, living a most austere life in a small cell and making many converts by his holy example and his preaching. The disease under which Addison laboured appears to have been asthma. It became more violent after his retirement from office, and was now accompanied by dropsy. For the next four months, the Dutch and Belgian armies laboured over their defences, the BEF expanded and the French army received more equipment and training. Examples from Classical Literature Arruntius, who wrote the history of the Punic Wars, painfully laboured to imitate Sallust. I laboured once to teach a Talmudist, that the earth is round, and that we have antipodes. For twenty years Tycho laboured hard at Uraniborg in the pursuit of science. She looked at him, and read in his countenance the disquiet with which his soul laboured. It's laboured breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end. Add to all these changes, that the garden was weeded, and the glebe was regularly laboured. One such truth-teller is worth all the moralists and preachers who ever laboured to humanise mankind. These works show the diligent zeal with which stainer laboured in his studies of the Italian masters. It was evident that he laboured under some irresolution that he could not master. For the accomplishment of this end, they laboured feverishly in sullen silence. She had laboured incessantly to improve it, and the condition of the people who lived on it. These latter are syntheses of many ideas, and centuries of human thought have laboured on their gigantic figures. There he laboured to civilize his countrymen, planted and harvested wheat, and kept in touch with Marsden across the Tasman Sea. We knew that Williams, the ignoble designer of tonneaux, laboured under the delusion that he could paint. He laboured under many disabilities, such as the merchet or fine for marrying his daughter, and fines for selling horse or ox. Uncle Donald's walrus moustache heaved gently upon his laboured breath, like seaweed on a ground-swell. Outside his own immediate circle Mr. calthrop has laboured with much effect. No doubt, the complaint under which he laboured, was the principal cause of his early retirement. The peasants laboured enthusiastically, but to the excavator's disgust the Turkish authorities forbade him to proceed. Returning to Africa, he laboured with great success amongst his own people and afterwards at Abeokuta. Show More Sentences He laboured to ameliorate the condition of the native Indians in the American colonies. The writer of Money laboured to reproduce the antithetic polish of his original. Before us and behind us the great cheechako army laboured along with infinite travail. Father Souciet laboured to prove it ought to be the crown imperial, a plant common in Persia. Another might have laboured for a year and not achieved the half of it. For eight years he laboured at this invention, and at last it is finished. Every successive Pope has laboured at the pontine marshes, but in vain. This is the grossest and wildest delusion, the completest and most signal mistake, that ever human being laboured under, or committed. If he had laboured with no other defect, had he the gift of tautology? Justice at least is due to those who have laboured without reward. Paul laboured, striving according to the working of God in him. Philips endeavoured to be natural, Pope laboured to be elegant. And he explained in detail the scheme upon which his wits had laboured. They laboured under him at word of command, steering at the wheel, pulling and hauling on ropes, healing water upon the deck from overside and scrubbing with brooms. It was on one of the couch-burning plots that she laboured with her fork, its four shining prongs resounding against the stones and dry clods in little clicks. The difficulties under which they had laboured all night, and which had found utterance in the most terrific gasps and snorts, are not to be conceived. Its under-lit oppressiveness is mirrored by Mic Pool's faintlysinister soundscape with its hints of Miles Davis here and unsettling, laboured breathing there. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of laboured? Words that rhyme with laboured What is the adverb for laboured? What is the adjective for laboured? What is the noun for laboured? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Labour labour labor unions labor union laborsome labor-saving labourer labourers labouring labour-intensive labourious labouriously 8-letter Words Starting With l la lab labo labou labour laboure