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

She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a “human computer,” laboriously measuring the positions and brightness of thousands of stars on photographic plates.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2025

The next afternoon Joe laboriously dragged it all the way up the wagon road, to the top of the mountain, pointed the contraption downhill, climbed in, and released the brake.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown