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Six example sentences with laboured, each labelled with its topic.
By the final mile his stride turned laboured, each step landing heavily where the first miles had felt effortless.
Fitness
The novel's opening is graceful, but its closing chapter reads as laboured, every sentence visibly pushed into place.
Literature
The lead actor's comic timing felt laboured, as though each joke had been rehearsed until every trace of spontaneity vanished.
Movies
The singer's phrasing sounded laboured on the high passage, each note pushed out rather than allowed to float.
Music
His crossover looked laboured after the ankle sprain, and defenders read the move a full second early.
Basketball
The minister's laboured answer wandered through four qualifications before reaching a point anyone could quote.
Politics
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