laboriously

Example Sentences

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Each was a career politician who spent decades laboriously climbing the government rungs before being elected governor.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

While traveling in Algeria in 2019, I took notes while watching women laboriously preparing couscous.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

The garden's collection has been laboriously reassembled after it had perished during World War II -- through decades of purchases, exchanges and numerous scientific missions that took Ivannikov's senior colleagues across several continents.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

Hitting “Buy Now” on a pair of pants I spent a month laboriously price tracking will simply never hit the same.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2025

She was trying laboriously to read Mr. Douglass’s book, but was yet to get through the first page of the preface.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson