How to Use laborious in a Sentence

laborious

adjective

• The combat is turn based and laborious, just like the old days.
  — Matthew Gault, Time, 9 Mar. 2020
• This makes the harvesting of their fruit laborious and time-consuming.
  — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2024
• Growing and maintaining a healthy, green lawn doesn’t have to be a time-consuming, laborious chore.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2020
• Some of my favorite books felt laborious at the outset, but nothing good comes from reading a book that feels like a punishment.
  — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• Murray is a notoriously laborious worker in the gym, and a film-room rat.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 7 Feb. 2020
• Creating a meaningful product is laborious, time-intensive, and even painful at times.
  — NBC News, 4 Feb. 2020
• Simply determining the category and code for an item can be a laborious process — and the means for rejecting a waiver are, at best, opaque.
  — NBC News, 13 Feb. 2020
• What that entailed for them was laborious, and financially and emotionally taxing.
  — Nicole R. Fleetwood, The New York Review of Books, 28 Apr. 2020
• My seemingly basic routine of cast, strip, figure-eight technique, and repeat, is becoming a laborious nightmare.
  — Ben Romans, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2020
• Building snowmen and making snow angels as a kid: fun! Shoveling snow as an adult: eh, kinda tiring, laborious, and guranteed to make your arms sore.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 17 Jan. 2020
• Identifying false claims about politics is a laborious affair that requires difficult judgments about the nature of truth.
  — Sarah Kreps, Foreign Affairs, 30 Mar. 2020
• Contact tracing, or the act of tracking all those who have come into contact with an infected person, is normally a laborious process performed by health officials.
  — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2020
• For the uninitiated, removing shapewear — to use the bathroom, for example — can be laborious, requiring some yanking and rolling and a base level of forearm strength.
  — Jessica Testa, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
• Emulators, based on a form of AI called machine learning, skip the laborious reproduction of nature.
  — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 12 Feb. 2020
• Gomez and his crew don’t press the masa by hand, a process too laborious for a busy restaurant.
  — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2022
• The process of getting them on at like, six in the morning, was too laborious.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
• This sci-fi RPG is a laborious game chock full of side quests.
  — Jess Grey, Wired, 25 Nov. 2020
• But the processing takes time and has been laborious in the heat.
  — Megan Stringer, San Antonio Express-News, 29 June 2022
• To me, this sort of laborious eating is not a means to an end but the whole point itself.
  — Serena Dai, Bon Appétit, 21 Mar. 2023
• At night, the routine is a tiny bit more laborious — but nowhere near twelve steps.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• The more laborious the cooking process is, the more delicious a dish must be.
  — Bettina Makalintal, Bon Appétit, 15 Dec. 2021
• This sci-fi role-player is a laborious game chock-full of side quests.
  — Jess Grey, Wired, 29 Nov. 2020
• That might be because the work is considered by many to be the most laborious and menial part of tech.
  — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 21 May 2024
• And here’s the best part: forget all those hours of laborious churning.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 24 June 2020
• While still hanging from the loop of its tail, the slender snake then began the laborious process of swallowing the gecko whole.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
• The initial leak of five million files grew to nearly twelve million, from the same source, and the work of sorting through it was laborious.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2021
• Not long before that, Citrin had gone through the laborious task of renewing his lease, a process that took a year-and-a-half.
  — Andy Wang, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2021
• The bad news: the treatment is laborious and not entirely risk-free.
  — Christiane Gelitz, Scientific American, 4 May 2023
• From that laborious point, a 10-3 run closed out the second set and Bel Air’s dominance spilled into the third.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
• The work will be laborious if only because the Coliseum has only one access point from outside — the tunnel where Trojan football players run onto the field.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024