LABOR in a Sentence
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292 example sentences for LABOR, such as:
1. We regard labor as a matter of honour.
2. Even speech was a labor and a weariness.
3. Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
4. He was a poor trader and a poorer boss of labor.
5. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
2. Even speech was a labor and a weariness.
3. Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
4. He was a poor trader and a poorer boss of labor.
5. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
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Meanings and Examples of LABOR
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labor
v. undergo the efforts of childbirth
n. an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Dr. Meade, who had arrived out of breath, expecting to find Melanie in premature labor at least, judging by Aunt Pitty's alarmed summoning, was indignant and said as much.
2 She had a vague memory of one of Aunt Pitty's stories of a friend who was in labor for two days and died without ever having the baby.
3 For the appetite Mammy had always deplored, the healthy appetite of a nineteen-year-old girl, now was increased fourfold by the hard and unremitting labor she had never known before.
4 It was beyond their comprehension that an O'Hara lady should do manual labor.
5 She had been silent, a little dazed since she came back to consciousness and found Ellen gone, Scarlett a termagant, the world changed and unceasing labor the order of the new day.
6 Scarlett did not realize that all the rules of the game had been changed and that honest labor could no longer earn its just reward.
7 Even speech was a labor and a weariness.
8 Hunger and hard labor, fear and constant strain, the terrors of war and the terrors of Reconstruction had taken away all warmth and youth and softness.
9 He had given up all hope of continuing his medical studies and was now a contractor, working a labor crew of Irishmen who were building the new hotel.
10 But for all her labor and sacrifice and resourcefulness, her small beginnings purchased at so great a cost might be snatched away from her at any minute.
11 Thousands of house servants, the highest caste in the slave population, remained with their white folks, doing manual labor which had been beneath them in the old days.
12 Country negroes flocked into the cities, leaving the rural districts without labor to make the crops.
13 He was a poor trader and a poorer boss of labor.
14 Unable to support the convicts, the State was hiring them out to those needing large labor crews in the building of railroads, in turpentine forests and lumber camps.
15 The Simmons boys were so busy they were operating their brick kiln with three shifts of labor a day.
Example Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1 Each family farms individually and reaps the benefit of its labor.
2 The current division of labor between workers and management will alter.
3 It was difficult to measure the precise impact of the labor action.
4 Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
5 Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
6 He mediated a settlement between labor and management.
7 Management and labor are dickering over pay, benefits and working conditions.
8 Such cheap goods obviously rely on dirt cheap labor.
9 His palms were excoriated by the hard labor of shoveling.
10 You need to rest from your labor; you look very tired.
11 We should try to reform criminals through labor rather than punish them.
12 We observe a striking shift away from a labor theory among all mainline economists.
13 We regard labor as a matter of honour.
14 The group became the spearhead of the labor union movement.
15 She was in labor for two hours before her baby was finally born.