How to Use labor in a Sentence

labor

1 of 3 noun

• A day's labor should get the job done.
• The cost of repairing the car includes parts and labor.
• He rested from his labors.
• She began to have labor pains this morning.
• She has been in labor for several hours.
• Getting the job done will require many hours of difficult labor.
• The proposed new law is opposed by organized labor.
• She had a difficult labor.
• She went into labor this morning.
• The prestige of the labor movement was much greater then.
  — Louis Uchitelle, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• There's a lot to be done, and a lot of it is free, unpaid labor.
  — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 25 Jan. 2019
• To make matters worse, the virus has shrunk the available labor pool.
  — Fortune, 10 Feb. 2020
• Their labors are set to Georges Delerue’s stirring score.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 July 2018
• The Pro Act is being called the most sweeping change to labor law in decades.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 15 Apr. 2021
• Some are ready to retire and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
  — Bill Keen, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Most area labor lawyers felt there was no basis for the claims.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 27 Oct. 2017
• This has been the history of the labor movement all along.
  — Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
• The Seattle port has been closed in recent days because of the labor strife.
  — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• The effects on the labor market will be deep but hard to measure.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• A year later, the current sellers are ready to show off the fruits of their labor.
  — cleveland, 6 Nov. 2020
• There have been labor shortages in the past two years and higher turnover in the wake of the pandemic.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
• But our skilled labor has been an issue for years and years.
  — Salena Zito, Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2020
• Some 63 million girls worldwide are caught in the trap of child labor.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 15 June 2021
• And before the advent of labor laws, children were part of that toil.
  — Maria Teresa Hart, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
• Growth is likely to be too strong for the labor market to handle.
  — Joel Naroff, Philly.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• Goods and labor flow back and forth, helping tourism and the economy on both sides.
  — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 6 May 2023
• Builders say that's because of the rising costs of labor, lumber and lots.
  — Paul Gores, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2018
• The shortage of labor has been a big issue for the industry.
  — Eben Shapiro, Time, 22 June 2021
• That’s a crucial part of what the labor movement has always done.
  — Livia Gershon, Longreads, 28 June 2018
• But that statistic comes in a tight labor market and should be taken with a grain of salt.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 11 Aug. 2021

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labor

2 of 3 verb

• The truck labored up the hill.
• We should honor those who labored so long to make the truth known.
• I have been laboring through this book for months.
• Workers labored in the vineyard.
• She has a tendency to labor the obvious.
• She has labored in vain to convince them to accept her proposal.
• He labored for several years as a miner.
• The pitchers labored in the first three months that taxed the bullpen.
  — Mark Gonzales, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• For those who labor, for those do the work, the seed is planted.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2020
• Workers labored around the clock to pump water out of the cave.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 10 July 2018
• Some songs are labored over for days and don’t even make the album.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2024
• The curly hair on their chests rose and fell with their labored breathing.
  — Sandra Sidi, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2019
• Back in the car, Bleu curled on his lap in a daze, his breathing labored.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
• Stout labored over that large-scale choral work for more than 20 years.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
• People labor each day to keep the world clean and running.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2022
• Still, Boyd was forced to labor through 30 pitches to get three outs.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2021
• He hadn’t won in two years and was laboring in the final round.
  — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 29 May 2018
• Workers also labored around the clock to pump water out of the cave.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 18 July 2018
• And on every hill, Chris would just labor up this thing.
  — Paddy O'Connell, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2023
• Instead, the Warriors have labored through a 1-3 start.
  — Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
• Hackett labored near where the marker is displayed on the square.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 17 June 2023
• Low-wage workers must labor for about 14 hours to fill up their tank.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 23 June 2022
• Her breathing was shallow and labored, and her skin was pale, moist and hot.
  — Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• Liam recalls laboring around the clock, often jumping from shifts in the middle of the night to the day and back again.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
• But most of the humor felt labored, which left the mystery as the main reason to keep watching.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
• Their greatest friend turned out to be the laboring poor of the countryside.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• Queen looks out the window — and sees a crew of black convicts laboring under the gun.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• His Friday performance got off to a slow start, and the pacing seemed labored in the first act.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 4 June 2017
• These are people who have lived here and followed the laws and labored here and are now getting a voice at the table.
  — David Sharos, Aurora Beacon-News, 5 May 2018
• Even Frisbee has a torch-passing speech to Greg, which feels labored.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023

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labor

3 of 3 adjective

• Siding with the bosses to deny workers paid sick leave and prevent a strike is not pro-labor.
  — Toluse Olorunnipa, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
• Abrams and other pro-labor figures have rallied around the effort.
  — Tribune Media Services, al, 21 Feb. 2021
• With Emma in the pre-labor room, Edmond decided to take a video of their last moments as a family of two.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 7 Aug. 2020
• But Jones said the union was willing to give Edwards another shot, seeing her as a strong pro-labor voice in Congress — and a voice for women.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
• All four Democrats have pitched themselves as pro-labor candidates.
  — Isaac Yu, Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2022
• As the month waned, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a host of pro-labor bills.
  — Piper French, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2021
• Abruzzo is also Biden’s best chance at achieving his goal to be the most pro-labor president in US history.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2022
• Moreover, Weil’s loss was a blow for Biden, who is certainly the most pro-labor president in decades, perhaps ever.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• In the past year, more young people on TikTok have expressed pro-labor sentiment, speaking out about fair pay and worker’s rights.
  — Caroline O'Donovan, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• The boycott was a response to low wages for drivers and anti-labor practices at Coors headquarters in Colorado.
  — Fifth & Mission Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2021
• The pro-labor Left has struggled under the reality of this system, too; private unionization is down to about 6 percent of the work force.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
• Labor leaders said now is a time to build their ranks due to worker shortages, the pandemic struggles and because a pro-labor president is in the White House.
  — Jesse Newman, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2021
• But the staffers who work for those lawmakers and help craft those pro-labor bills are barred under California law from forming a union themselves.
  — Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 June 2022
• Biden has appointed leadership to the NLRB widely seen as pro-labor.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• The longer labor laws stand still, the better corporations get maneuvering around them.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Dec. 2017
• From the Archives Labor unions, which Mr. Biden courted during the campaign and whose pro-labor stance has marked the early days of his administration, also gave.
  — Chad Day, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021
• President Biden has embraced a pro-labor stance during his campaign.
  — Robert Peres, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2021
• It was based on an original idea of Fonda’s and remains a classic for its pro-labor, feminist take on making the workplace a more equitable space for all.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• No mention is made of the Democratic Leadership Council, organized in the 1980s with the aim of moving what had been a pro-labor party to the right and separating it from its unionist base.
  — John R. MacArthur, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• The councilman noted that his heavily union district, which includes San Pedro, would not warm to a candidate who was not pro-labor.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• Democrats were split on the proposition, with some old-school, pro-labor liberals simply unwilling to vote against the concept of collective bargaining.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 5 May 2021
• That some of the most high-profile targets of anti-labor measures have been swing states with strong union legacies—namely, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan—is no coincidence.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2021
• The lopsided outcome at the 6,000-person warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., came even as the pandemic’s effect on the economy and the election of a pro-labor president had made the country more aware of the plight of essential workers.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• Though Walter grew up in a pro-labor household — his father was the longtime president of a steelworker’s union — the Wobblies’ experience in Spokane wasn’t part of his young consciousness.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020
• The start of President Joe Biden’s second year in office comes with new opportunities to deliver on his commitment to be pro-labor.
  — NBC News, 20 Jan. 2022
• Those who warned that California’s anti-labor Proposition 22 would hasten the destruction of good jobs and the rise of gig work have a new data point to cite, courtesy of the Albertsons grocery empire.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2021
• False Facebook is not removing a photo of Tlaib being arrested during a pro-labor rally in Detroit.
  — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 31 July 2020
• The older Trumka was a close and powerful ally of Democrats in Washington who sought to advance pro-labor laws and regulations as private-sector union membership declined over the course of the 2000s.
  — Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2023
• Dennis Williams led a double life as president of the UAW, and the stain the ex-labor leader left on the union as part of the corruption scandal will burden its members for years to come, according to federal prosecutors.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2021
• Biden favors the broader, pro-labor definition of joint employer.
  — Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 2 May 2024