LABOUR in a Sentence
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189 example sentences for LABOUR, such as:
1. Cheerfulness and goodwill make labour light.
2. It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.
3. They would benefit by reducing their labour costs.
4. God commanded, and his wants forced him to labour.
5. The new machine reduced labour costs to almost nil.
2. It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.
3. They would benefit by reducing their labour costs.
4. God commanded, and his wants forced him to labour.
5. The new machine reduced labour costs to almost nil.
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Meanings and Examples of LABOUR
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labour
n. productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
n. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
Classic Sentence: (145 in 10 pages)
1 The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
2 That labour put a distinction between them and common: that added something to them more than nature, the common mother of all, had done; and so they became his private right.
3 The labour that was mine, removing them out of that common state they were in, hath fixed my property in them.
4 He by his labour does, as it were, inclose it from the common.
5 God, when he gave the world in common to all mankind, commanded man also to labour, and the penury of his condition required it of him.
6 improve it for the benefit of life, and therein lay out something upon it that was his own, his labour.
7 God commanded, and his wants forced him to labour.
8 So that God, by commanding to subdue, gave authority so far to appropriate: and the condition of human life, which requires labour and materials to work on, necessarily introduces private possessions.
9 Right and conveniency went together; for as a man had a right to all he could employ his labour upon, so he had no temptation to labour for more than he could make use of.
10 And my children also, being born of me, had a right to be maintained out of my labour or substance.
11 The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.
12 Hence labour was something that both races on the slave plantation sought to escape.
13 They unconsciously had imbibed the feeling that manual labour was not the proper thing for them.
14 On the other hand, the slaves, in many cases, had mastered some handicraft, and none were ashamed, and few unwilling, to labour.
15 Ever since then I have had no patience with any school for my race in the South which did not teach its students the dignity of labour.
Example Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1 The new machine reduced labour costs to almost nil.
2 Cheerfulness and goodwill make labour light.
3 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
4 For skilled occupations the supply of labour is typically fairly inelastic, because few workers are capable of doing the work.
5 Consultation is traditional in the consensual Belgian system of labour relations.
6 Society is challenging the traditional sexual division of labour.
7 The three things most difficult are, to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of labour.
8 The shakeout in the labour market after Christmas usually makes January a bad month for unemployment.
9 It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.
10 Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
11 They labour assiduously for the benefit of future generations.
12 They would benefit by reducing their labour costs.
13 They mediated a settlement between labour and management.
14 Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.
15 This education aimed at combining brain work with manual labour.