How to Use labored in a Sentence
labored
adjective- The movie's dialogue seems very labored.
- The patient's symptoms included a rapid pulse and labored breathing.
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That’s when the fevers were highest and my breathing was most labored.
—Christopher Chen, STAT, 28 Aug. 2020
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Fall would't be fall without a labored search for the world’s best topcoat.
—Liza Corsillo, GQ, 20 Oct. 2017
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Brown’s gait was slow and labored because of a severe limp.
—Arelis R. Hernández, Star Tribune, 11 Oct. 2020
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For the first time in a labored, legal process, Weichel disagreed with them.
—Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
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The movie revolves around the long and labored production of the 1975 Moore film Dolemite, which gives the movie a Disaster Artist vibe.
—Elliott Smith, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
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Lopez could hear it in his voice over the telephone when Baca called him again, the labored breathing, the anxiety.
—Hector Saldana, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
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Harvie watched on the screen as her father’s breathing became more labored.
—Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2021
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Hear a song in your head to drown out all the labored breathing, then ride the downhill into Manhattan.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022
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The 4-year-old fell to her side near the 3/16 pole with labored breathing and died on the track, suffering from severe weakness in her hind limbs.
—Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2023
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The first to die took their last labored breaths amid staff who, instead of calling 911, dialed the governor.
—Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 21 Sep. 2017
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Rapid heart rate and labored breathing are signals that things are getting worse.
—Barbara Gordon, idahostatesman, 10 July 2017
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About the only gripe anyone had with the Ram was its labored feeling when trying to keep a 70-mph pace with a trailer in tow; 65 was just fine.
—K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 17 Jan. 2020
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Mora said labored breathing is a sign that a child is having trouble with this virus.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 23 Oct. 2022
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His movements were so labored that some questioned whether Looney’s career soon could be over.
—Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 8 June 2020
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But then his breathing grew more labored, and he was placed on a ventilator on June 26.
—Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 22 Aug. 2020
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The problem is that his shooting motion often looks slow and labored.
—Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 17 Dec. 2020
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At one point, his blood pressure dropped, and his breathing became labored.
—Jan Ransom, ProPublica, 21 Apr. 2020
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Sigurdsson drove the game's first real chance wide of the upright just shy of the 10-minute mark after a labored start to proceedings.
—SI.com, 10 Feb. 2018
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In the end, Flamengo had to settle for a bronze medal after a labored 4-2 victory against Al Ahly of Egypt.
—Samindra Kunti, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
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Limón’s works can creep into a labored piousness; this was alive.
—Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 3 May 2017
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There is something so old-fashioned about it, so labored, so stagecraft.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
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But the playing is so yanked around rhythmically that the music sounds labored.
—Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2020
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The back end is a rather labored effort to extract leadership lessons from their careers.
—Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
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Krishna is again wheezing and huddled next to a vapor machine to ease his labored breathing.
—Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2021
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Behind a glass door, a man’s chest and abdomen were rising and falling rapidly, his body wracked by labored breaths.
—Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 28 June 2020
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Tapia de Veer used voices from a Colombian mother and her daughter as well as his own labored breathing from playing the flute on the track.
—Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2022
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Such twists arrive en masse in a labored climax, accompanied by more of the B&W flashbacks that have been sprinkled throughout.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Jan. 2024
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Only her breathing, noisy and labored, distinguished her.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
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