How to Use labor-intensive in a Sentence

labor-intensive

adjective

• It’s seen as a labor-intensive and risky job, Kaneko said.
  — Hannah Kirshner, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2023
• Time The packing of the tires to build load-bearing walls is very labor-intensive.
  — Maria Marabito, Treehugger, 3 July 2023
• Piles of the seagrass on the beach smell bad and can be labor-intensive and costly to remove.
  — USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
• But our own labor-intensive projects in the kitchen can also convey our care and love.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• But making a cheesecake at home can seem a labor-intensive and time-sucking task the first time around.
  — Lisa Waterman Gray, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• The dish is highly labor-intensive, with three different cooks working on it over the course of three shifts.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2023
• Fishing was a labor-intensive process of weaving baskets from reeds and laying them in the water to trap fish in the current.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
• Cannabis is among the nation’s most labor-intensive crops, on par with strawberries.
  — Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• That’s obviously labor-intensive, and there were a lot of lights involved, but the concept is simple: Create a sky to light all of the sets that are within the space.
  — Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• Winik said the surge in cases causes more delays because initial case filing is one of the more labor-intensive stages of the court system.
  — Christopher Cann, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
• True vanilla is a demanding crop, so labor-intensive that at times the market value of the beans has surpassed that of silver, weight for weight.
  — Ligaya Mishan Melody Melamed, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• As the mom of two small kids with a demanding job, my life is both quotidian and fairly labor-intensive.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
• An older method in which a labor-intensive form of yeast starter is used to begin fermentation.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• In Vietnam, sticky rice cakes are a beloved, labor-intensive holiday treat.
  — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
• One soup became two, then a dozen, with two offered each day, six days a week, each with its own noodle, toppings, garnishes and labor-intensive broth.
  — Mrussell, oregonlive, 31 May 2023
• With more outreach workers on the streets, the labor-intensive work of earning a homeless person’s trust continues.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
• Health care is labor-intensive and wages are often the most substantial cost, so there’s a strong incentive to automate.
  — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Apr. 2023
• The plucking process is meticulous and labor-intensive — a good picker harvests about 75 spears in an hour, unearthing one subterranean stalk at a time.
  — Jason Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2023
• Stopping knockoff knockwurst and phony fromage The fruit has always been labor-intensive to bring to market, with trees that need to be trained, pruned and harvested by hand.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
• Just be more efficient But whether this finding applies to more labor-intensive jobs is doubtful.
  — Allison Schrager, The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2024
• Prices for labor-intensive services like medical care and education tend to track wage gains and the strength of the overall economy.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• One is the most prevalent, modern way called Sokujo and the other is the ancient, time-consuming and labor-intensive Kimoto.
  — Akiko Katayama, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Anyone and everyone can use a hand cream, but people who work in labor-intensive jobs, such as construction or as an ER nurse, may reach for hand creams more often than not.
  — Daley Quinn, Health, 29 Mar. 2023
• The tests are labor-intensive, resource-intensive or both.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Though communities and resorts try to remove as much of the seaweed from the beach as possible, that process is expensive and labor-intensive.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2023
• The pizzas are served as 12-inch rounds or squares, though the latter option was briefly suspended so the team could figure out how to streamline the labor-intensive process by baking squares at the same temperature as the rounds.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
• Because of the labor-intensive nature of the dish, paella is only served on weekdays with 24-hour advance notice for carryout.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
• After a couple of labor-intensive innings early, Lorenzen settled down and made quick work of the Nationals.
  — Dan Gelston, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2023
• On top of that is the labor-intensive nature of having an account where every transaction is scrutinized.
  — Alissa Jubelirer, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2024
• The day crew deals mostly with customers and sales; the night watch is more labor-intensive, protecting trees but also unloading new inventory for the next day’s customers.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024