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Six example sentences with labored, each labelled with its topic.
Her breathing was labored after twenty steps, and the nurse called for a chair before she reached the desk.
Medicine
The forger's brushwork looks labored beside the original, where every stroke lands once and is never corrected.
Art
Anxious speakers often sound labored, pausing in odd places, and listeners read that hesitation as dishonesty rather than nerves.
Psychology
The critic called the prose labored, with sentences that seemed to drag every clause uphill.
Literature
The pianist's labored tempo in the finale showed how little time she had been given to rehearse the piece.
Music
The center's labored movement up the court told the trainer his ankle was worse than he admitted.
Basketball
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Found in these word lists
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)Authoritative
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
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