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adjective

labouring

doing arduous or unpleasant work

In a sentence

Six example sentences with labouring, each labelled with its topic.

  • Census takers listed most of the village as labouring families who worked another man's fields from dawn until dusk.

    Economics

  • Millet painted labouring figures bent over a stubble field, and Paris critics called the subject too plain for a gallery.

    Art

  • The cathedral records name every labouring crew that hauled stone up the river through eleven winters.

    Architecture

  • Tax rolls listed the labouring poor separately, since they owned no land and hired themselves out by the day.

    History

  • Dickens fills his novels with labouring families whose children carry coal before they learn to read.

    Literature

  • The new party drew its first votes from labouring districts, where the docks and the brickworks employed nearly everyone.

    Politics

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