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Example sentences for: laboring

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We nod to the idea of value-subtraction whenever we fall back on Horace's phrase about "laboring to bring forth a mouse," or lament the forests felled to make possible a terrible book, or recollect an experience of working by committee.
Our car is laboring under the load of all my worldly possessions and can't go very fast, even under favorable weather conditions.
It doesn't help that Potter looks and sounds as if she has just stepped out of a lab where someone was laboring to clone Julia Roberts.
Powell may be the patron saint of all writers laboring in obscurity.
Brightly decorated by their peers, they depict the incumbent in life, at work, or laboring in the fields.