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Example sentences for: labored

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The Lincoln Bedroom, for example, contains none other than Lincoln's own ornate bed (if indeed he ever slept in it; questions have been raised about that, too), the one for which Calvin Coolidge's wife labored two years to make a sufficiently large quilt.
These works are labored, didactic, and humorless, with weak characters and weaker ideas.
Happily, however, labored metaphors like this are few, and the politics serve more as a backdrop than as a message.
The decision to add about ten analysts to this effort was seen as a major bureaucratic victory, but the CTC labored to find them.
Had the semi-educated computer experts who gave us programmed, programming, and programmer labored under any doubt about their ability to spell according to standard American practice, they might have looked it up in a dictionary or other source and got it right.