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
The rats were hauling it laboriously through the grass, inching it along in the direction of a very large wild rosebush in the far corner of the yard.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
