Example sentences for: laboriously

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

  • ) 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.

  • When asked to sign a visitor's book, Yeltsin "spent a few long minutes writing laboriously in the volume," the Post said.

  • One rapidly runs out of hands and must resort to fingers and toes, for after years of laboriously categorizing these languages, the number of different main branches (called families and subfamilies) came to about ten.

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

  • 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.


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