laboriously

[US]/lə'bɔ:riəsli/
[UK]/ləˈb ɔrɪəslɪ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. with great effort, difficulty, or hardship; in a laborious manner; with painstaking effort or hard work

Example Sentences

She is tracing laboriously now.

laboriously copying out an old manuscript

He is committed to laboriously assembling all of the facts of the case.

Amount to a company to the sea for, nodical amerce is indifferent to, work laboriously fills the sea to build the land that give to want restorable, this can be accepted least of all.

He laboriously climbed the steep mountain.

She laboriously typed out the report on her old typewriter.

The students laboriously studied for their final exams.

The artist laboriously painted each intricate detail of the mural.

He laboriously assembled the furniture according to the instructions.

She laboriously translated the document from English to Chinese.

The workers laboriously dug a trench for the new pipeline.

The chef laboriously prepared a gourmet meal for the special event.

The author laboriously revised the manuscript before sending it to the publisher.

They laboriously carried the heavy boxes up the stairs to the apartment.

Real-world Examples

The story was four pages long, laboriously printed in pencil.

Source: Stephen King on Writing

Basic foods no longer have to be laboriously sought in the forest.

Source: Environment and Science

They laboriously combed through the observations, checking them for anything that looked like a nuke.

Source: Crash Course Astronomy

He was digging in his garden–digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of his thought.

Source: Brave New World

She turned her great body laboriously and began a slow trek back to the ocean.

Source: Cross Creek (Part 2)

Slowly, laboriously he read the yellowed cutting.

Source: Son of Mount Tai (Part 2)

'What is it'? said Swithin, laboriously scrutinizing the thing.

Source: Lovers in the Tower (Part Two)

Here he beheld Jim in his regimentals, laboriously approaching on Tony's back.

Source: The Romantic Adventure of the Milkmaid

Anne was diligent about the house affairs, while I toiled laboriously in the field.

Source: Twelve Years a Slave

The palace of illusion, so laboriously raised by the love of the wife, was tottering.

Source: The Biography of Tolstoy

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