How do you use Laboriously in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Laboriously meaning
With great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor.
Using Laboriously
- The main meaning on this page is: With great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor.
- In the example corpus, laboriously often appears in combinations such as: to laboriously, so laboriously, laboriously built.
Context around Laboriously
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Laboriously
- In this selection, "laboriously" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, moved, craftsmen, position, built, writing and hand stand out and add context to how "laboriously" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include allied position laboriously built up and and had laboriously translated it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "laboriously" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with laboriously
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We cannot undermine the processes we have so laboriously established. (10 words)
They move very slowly and laboriously, dragging themselves forwards with their flippers. (12 words)
A giant siege tower with a battering ram was constructed and moved laboriously up the completed ramp. (17 words)
Historically, skilled craftsmen laboriously picked the silk thread from old kimono and rewove it into a new textile in the width of a heko obi for men's kimono, using a recycling weaving method called saki-ori. (37 words)
Bell was fascinated by the machine and after he obtained a copy of von Kempelen's book, published in German, and had laboriously translated it, he and his older brother Melville built their own automaton head. (36 words)
Coleman and Turner are brilliant at portraying how quickly exasperation sets in, conversations becoming like rushed-off telegrams, or spoken as though they’re laboriously trying to order dinner in a foreign restaurant. (33 words)
Example sentences (18)
Coleman and Turner are brilliant at portraying how quickly exasperation sets in, conversations becoming like rushed-off telegrams, or spoken as though they’re laboriously trying to order dinner in a foreign restaurant.
Plus, it would be easier to just tie a rope around the stones, rather than laboriously chisel out a hole.
As the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) continues to laboriously meet to execute their strenuous job, the expected nightmares become reality as all the PNC suspected financial irregularities unfolded.
We cannot undermine the processes we have so laboriously established.
We must remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment else those who suffer from inequality will blow up the structure of political democracy which this Assembly has so laboriously built up”.
What we get instead is a laboriously circuitous series of days that do nothing but deflate any anticipation we might have conjured.
Accessories The Schreibmax was a printing unit which could be attached to the Enigma, removing the need for laboriously writing down the letters indicated on the light panel.
A giant siege tower with a battering ram was constructed and moved laboriously up the completed ramp.
Although the organ was not damaged, all its pipes and other component parts had to be removed and laboriously cleaned and restored, to prevent damage from the fire's accumulated soot.
Bell was fascinated by the machine and after he obtained a copy of von Kempelen's book, published in German, and had laboriously translated it, he and his older brother Melville built their own automaton head.
But most of his serious hours were occupied with the 90,000-word story of his life that he was laboriously writing in Amharic.
Despite her limited education, she read as much of the scientific literature as she could obtain, and often, laboriously hand-copied papers borrowed from others.
Historically, skilled craftsmen laboriously picked the silk thread from old kimono and rewove it into a new textile in the width of a heko obi for men's kimono, using a recycling weaving method called saki-ori.
In one summer the whole forward Allied position laboriously built up over the years to act as the springboard into France had been precipitously abandoned.
In the Columbia River estuary, most preyed on by eagles were estimated to measure between convert in length, and carp flown with (laboriously) were up to convert in length.
Manufacturing Tantalum filament light bulb, 1908, the first metal filament bulb Early lamps were laboriously assembled by hand.
Soles, which were once laboriously hand-stitched on, are now more often machine stitched or simply glued on.
They move very slowly and laboriously, dragging themselves forwards with their flippers.
Common combinations with laboriously
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to laboriously 2×
- so laboriously 2×
- laboriously built 2×
- laboriously writing 2×
- and laboriously 2×