laboriously
Example Sentences
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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
We are more representative of what chasing that dream actually looks like, because we’re laboriously doing it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
Not long after, slow on his ruined feet, the young man made his way laboriously down from his hut on the hillside, carrying the twig cage on his back, with the bird inside.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
