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Example sentences for "labored"

Lexicographically close words:
labor; laborare; laboratories; laboratory; labore; laborem; laborer; laborers; labores; labori
  1. Their bitter opponent was Cardinal Richard, a witty French prelate who labored might and main for Rampolla, and told me some amusing stories about Agliardi.

  2. Rejecting the ecclesiastical profession for literature, he became an author, and conceived the stupendous design of the Dictionnaire Encyclopedique, on which he labored 20 years.

  3. He was of a peaceful disposition, and labored earnestly to reconcile the kings of England and France.

  4. The French missionaries, Brebeuf and Lallemant, who labored with the Hurons, were taken, and suffered death by torture.

  5. He labored at his maps fifteen hours a day for fifty years.

  6. He labored with great zeal against the Catholic church, and made many proselytes.

  7. She corresponded with some of the learned men of the day; but is chiefly known by an ingenious Flora which she commenced at the age of 74, and labored at with taste and assiduity nearly ten years, when her sight began to fail her.

  8. He was undoubtedly the ablest general of his age; had a proud mien, a noble aspect and a strong frame; slept little, labored and wrote much.

  9. He labored 25 years on a commentary on the Lusiade, which was prohibited by the inquisition.

  10. He retook Constantinople, which had been 58 years under the power of the French, and labored to reconcile the eastern and western churches.

  11. He refused the crown of the empire and of Italy, satisfied to rule his own subjects, for whose happiness he labored earnestly.

  12. He labored some years as a presbyterian pastor in Virginia, where the act of uniformity was enforced with great rigor, and was the founder of the first presbytery in that state.

  13. Throughout your long and labored apology, you avoid grappling with these charges.

  14. But you tell us that you would have labored for these amendments "had it been possible, but every body knows that it was impracticable.

  15. For sixteen years he labored in raising funds, and in teaching, for this exponent of practical Christianity.

  16. He labored in the villages of Gumaca, Meycauayan, Santa Ana de Sapa, Morong, and Nagcarlan, and died in 1610 at Lumban.

  17. Reverence and your holy associates will obtain what you have so labored for.

  18. Arrived at the islands he was assigned to the missions at Bataan, where he labored assiduously until the year 1600, when he became provincial by unanimous vote.

  19. The first three sections of this chapter are taken up with the life and work of Mateo Delgado, who labored in the American missions.

  20. A Dominican missionary who has labored in Formosa writes (March, 1643) a detailed account of the seizure of that island by the Dutch.

  21. Andres de Puertollano, preacher, went to the Philippines in 1616, where besides being occupied in preaching and confessing, he labored in the missions of Sampaloc and Paete, and also acted as guardian of the Cavite convent.

  22. From 1817 he labored for State appropriations for the school.

  23. Thanks to their efforts and the efforts of others who have labored to the same end, the grounds are to-day, and must forever remain, open to the use of the people.

  24. And if where he labored the flood of sin Like the tide from the harbor-bar sets in.

  25. The ladder which for so many years I had labored to construct, on which I thought to scale heaven, and which looked to me so lofty and so safe, there it lies broken to pieces, and the hand that struck it down was my own weakness.

  26. Despite all Aunt Nancy could say against it, he labored industriously with the shovel during the next two hours, and at the end of that time as much ground had been prepared as the little woman thought necessary.

  27. Of course I can"; and Jack labored with a will, relieving the tired-looking little woman whenever it was possible.

  28. Jack labored most industriously, beating eggs, sifting flour, washing pans, and keeping the fire roaring, thus doing his full share in the important preparations.

  29. I had labored to secure for myself; our positions were changed; and how could I dare to offer to him the same love and benefits which I had rejected so bitterly when he offered them to me?

  30. Alice never changed the fashion of her garments, and while she labored night and day for me, I was making a cap for her, and braiding a great muslin apron, which she was to wear on the day.

  31. This fault Henschel at first thought could be remedied: for months they labored together, trying to overcome it.

  32. It has been told elsewhere how in this last summer of his life he labored to make more beautiful and more valuable the summer home which had become very dear to him.

  33. Mr. Ward labored day and night to prevent the dishonor of the banks of New York.

  34. He labored almost single-handed to establish the Bank of Commerce, and became its first president, stipulating that he should receive no compensation.

  35. How she labored over them her companion daughter well remembers: remembers too what success crowned the effort.

  36. I started with a painful sense of my own weakness--with a natural dread that the secret misery under which I labored was no longer a secret.

  37. But his scrutiny labored under one disadvantage.

  38. The entire eighteenth century labored to blacken and calumniate the victorious adversary of "sweet Fenelon.

  39. He was not the enemy of the Company of Jesus, since he himself had labored to procure its return to France.

  40. Assiduously he labored to help her build the nest, to help her feed the young; proud of his impassioned activity in her and their behalf; devoutly he performed his share of the brooding, while she hunted in her turn.

  41. The Chinese, among whom I have labored for many years, are more honest than some Christians.

  42. So she slipped off the silk and put on the gingham again, washed the dishes with the labored accuracy of a trained mind doing unfamiliar work, made the bread, redressed at last, and joined him about nine o'clock.

  43. He should have about him from the first, Truth and Order, with a sequence of impressions which great minds have labored to prepare.

  44. Had an amicable solution of the slavery issue been possible, this platform committee would have found it, for it labored faithfully to accomplish the miracle.

  45. Mr. Yancey immediately printed a statement deploring the betrayal of personal confidence in its publication, and to modifiy[2] the obnoxious declaration by a long and labored argument.

  46. For years he has labored to prove it a sacred right of white men to take negro slaves into the new Territories.

  47. Is it any wonder that the little girls for whom Lewis Carroll labored so lovingly should reward him with their laughter?

  48. The labored breathing, the short, painful gasps, quickly sapped his strength.

  49. She labored for expression so much, that it was sometimes painful to hear her.

  50. Few circumstances are more injurious to beauty than the constrained movement, suffused complexion, and labored respiration that betray tight-lacing.

  51. He labored on, with a kind of desperate snuffle.

  52. Fell a silence among them, heavy and strained, in which they heard only the squeaking of frail basketwork as their raft labored in the wash.

  53. At such times we floated in a mirage where each leaf and frond and webbed liana with its mirrored image had an unnatural brilliance and precision, like a labored canvas or a view seen through a stereoscope.

  54. The burst had marrow-drawn him, his lungs labored pitifully as if he were breathing cotton wool.

  55. It was attended with the usual physical signs, and gave rise to extremely rapid and labored breathing, especially when associated with painful enlargement of the liver and spleen.

  56. Here the breathing is constantly labored (orthopnoea); but the patient from time to time dozes off into an imperfect sleep, in which the breathing almost entirely ceases.

  57. Though he was convinced that the opportunities lay in the field of telephony, Bell labored faithfully for regular periods with the devices in which his patrons were interested.

  58. For three years they labored with this apparatus, trying every conceivable sort of disk.

  59. Instead we should wonder that, despite all discouragements and handicaps, he clung to his great idea and labored on.

  60. They knew what they sought, and they labored toward the goal with unflagging zeal.

  61. He stared at the majestic form, and at the faultless face looking so proudly down upon him, as from an inaccessible height; and she heard him draw his breath, with a labored hissing sound.

  62. I have labored to liberate you; have subordinated all other aims to this, and now, that I have come to set you free, you repulse and spurn me!

  63. And on every occasion they labored to make themselves perfect in those branches of wood lore, and the knowledge of useful things, which they expected would play a prominent part in the approaching competition.

  64. Happy day, long wished for, destined to gladden those beatified spirits who have labored on earth to this end, but died without the sight!

  65. But from his new-made grave he speaks now to the whole vast Republic, animating all good citizens to labor as he labored and to live as he lived, that this land may be redeemed.

  66. Yet by the very nature of the case he labored under a disadvantage which forever barred him from calling himself critic as well as reviewer.

  67. Some of them should be exposed; some chided; some labored with, according to the magnitude and the nature of their offense.

  68. The first is a hard-hitting statement, straight out of intense feeling or labored thought.

  69. They labored with Douglas and secured his cooeperation.

  70. To this letter Trumbull replied that to be talked about for the presidency impaired the influence he might otherwise have to promote the reforms which he labored to bring about.

  71. So we went to Howe's apartments, found him at home and alone, and we labored with him till past midnight, seeking in a friendly way to change his purpose, but without avail.

  72. That Seward and Weed labored for Cameron's appointment, and that Weed had private reasons for doing so, is true, but the controlling factor was something of earlier date.

  73. He labored to prevent the extension of slavery into the new territories, and he very nearly succeeded.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "labored" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alliterative; arduous; artificial; assonant; awkward; baroque; belabored; bombastic; burdensome; busy; chiming; cramped; crushing; cumbrous; difficult; elaborate; elegant; elephantine; fancy; fine; flamboyant; florid; flowery; forced; formal; formidable; frilly; fussy; grueling; halting; hard; heavy; hefty; humdrum; killing; labored; laborious; leaden; lumbering; luxuriant; luxurious; methodical; monotone; monotonous; onerous; operose; oppressive; ornate; ostentatious; overworked; overwrought; painful; picturesque; pompous; ponderous; punishing; rhyming; rich; rococo; sesquipedalian; singsong; stiff; stilted; strained; studied; tedious; toilsome; tough; troublesome; turgid; unnatural; unwieldy; uphill; wearisome