Example sentences for: laboriously

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

  • As the novel begins, she's preparing to send Jane by herself in their rusty truck, having laboriously and implausibly taught the girl to drive.

  • You may even see families sitting at the roadside, cooking the willow in cauldron-like vats and laboriously stripping off the bark.

  • ) As if the reader can't see right away that Joseph has an appetite as perverse as Ruth's (because Joseph himself doesn't see it right away), Joseph the narrator laboriously mulls over the lessons he is learning about her and about himself.

  • One of the fishermen lazily drew his knife out of his trouser pocket; he laboriously opened it and began to sharpen the blade on the corner of the sandstone wall.

  • But Richard Morrison, writing in The Times in 1995, says he knows a journalist who has taken to writing his stories in longhand, revising them laboriously in ink, and only then tapping them into the computer.


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