laboring
Example Sentences
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Spirit has been laboring to emerge from its second trip to bankruptcy in less than a year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
We know that underneath, we’re laboring frantically to keep going — sometimes, even just to stay afloat.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
This base allowed to soar last Sunday’s spire of victory at another Jack Hughes’s laboring hand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
"For decades, while laboring in the vineyards of the community, he inspired us to keep hope alive in the struggle for liberty and justice for all," the Democrat said.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
Everybody else in Fayette County would say they were going but to work in the garden, and that’s the picture you’d get in your mind—people out there laboring and sweating and grunting in the dirt.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
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