laboured

[US]/'lebɚd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. requiring much effort, cautious.

Phrases & Collocations

laboured breathing

laboured movement

Example Sentences

one of Adolf's laboured jokes.

The tractor laboured up the hillside.

He laboured at the problem.

They laboured for the happiness of mankind.

they laboured from dawn to dusk in two shifts.

Coleraine laboured against confident opponents.

they laboured up a steep, tortuous track.

prose at its most laboured and puffy.

He laboured for his children.

The old man laboured up the hillside.

it now looks as if the reformers had laboured in vain.

the land belonged to him who laboured it.

He laboured under the constant misapprehension that nobody liked him.

And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Real-world Examples

Its laboured breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end.

Source: A Study in Scarlet by Sherlock Holmes

To make the plough, miners, smelters, and smiths, -woodcutters, sawyers, and carpenters, -must have laboured.

Source: British Original Language Textbook Volume 3

Helped by a friendly arm, she laboured up the steps to the terrace.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

His breathing was shallow, and perhaps a little more laboured than on other days.

Source: Me Before You

Heavens, how I laboured in those days!

Source: Essays on the Four Seasons

He looked pale, his breathing laboured.

Source: Me Before You

They laboured all day in the mills.

Source: Langman OCLM-01 words

2, Who laboured with great industry To make it fair and true.

Source: "Little Women" original version

Susie heard his laboured breathing, but she only heard the breathing of one man.

Source: Magician

She had laboured under the misconception that Bella liked her.

Source: Langman OCLM-01 words

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