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Example sentences for: labored

How can you use “labored” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

For nearly a year, while Bill Bradley labored to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate, Al Gore studiously ignored him.
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.
It is certainly the end toward which Kubrick labored.
He had labored too long to make America his own to feel it pulled out from under him, even in jest.