laboring

Example Sentences

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Laboring through the first half of the New Year’s workout, Bennani asked one of her teammates if they could swim together.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2022

Laboring women and their partners will often be asked to wear gloves and masks during delivery.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2020

“In these places, the filth is allowed to accumulate to an extent almost incredible,” reported Dr. John Griscom in his 1845 account The Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of New York.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Laboring to throw strikes, Nieve gave up three hits and walked three, though he struck out five.

From New York Times • May 30, 2010

Laboring, this woman who had carried her child as a foreign growth that sickened her every day, expelled it at last.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston