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Example sentences for: belabored

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The decline of the big band was belabored and cartoonish; it kept coming back long after it seemed to have drawn its last breath.
Bartoli's style of fussing over every syllable has been called twitchy, belabored, and self-consciously adorable.
Her belabored references to '80s teen movies serve no purpose, save to further showcase what seems to be Kerr's suppressed "thinking girl's" crush on John Cusack.