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
You probably know it already — you’ve seen oil pumpjacks laboring away in nutty places, like on the La Cienega Boulevard shortcut through Baldwin Hills to the airport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
They were checking on their fleets of AI assistants to make sure they were still laboring away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 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
