laboriousness

Example Sentences

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Which is why, this December, I tried a different tack: investing in a trio of simple tools that promised to up my cookie game while dialing down its laboriousness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Since she’s doing everything online right now, it wouldn’t surprise me if her fine motor skills have lagged some, which is probably contributing to the laboriousness of her writing.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2021

Thus, he uncorks sentences like this: "we is all of us taking a deserved rest, for we expended a prodigious, a fantastic, a burdensomely amount of laboriousness and energy."

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021

The recent live versions of “Peter Pan” and “The Sound of Music” on NBC had their own kind of laboriousness, and so did the musical drama “Smash,” which ran for two seasons on NBC.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2015

Will only thought of giving a good pinch that would annihilate that vaunted laboriousness, and was unable to imagine the mode in which Dorothea would be wounded.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George