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Example sentences for: labored

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Even Yogi Berra, a Hall of Famer, was never the great hero of the Yankees--he labored in the shadow of greater stars like Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford.
Those of us who have labored in the field of black studies (politically incorrectly such as the present author or very much politically correctly like a good many very good scholars) are heartened by this commercial venture.
He cultivated a wanness in himself; he labored to locate the Canadian within.
These works are labored, didactic, and humorless, with weak characters and weaker ideas.
The decision to add about ten analysts to this effort was seen as a major bureaucratic victory, but the CTC labored to find them.