Definition of laboriously in English:
laboriously
adverb ləˈbɔːrɪəsliləˈbɔriəsli
In a way that takes considerable time and effort.
the boys were laboriously copying down sentences from the blackboard
she breathed slowly and laboriously
Example sentencesExamples
- The image was generated by a calculation that could have been done by hand, albeit more laboriously.
- The ancient, dusty floorboards groaned miserably as he laboriously climbed off his mattress.
- Each page was laboriously copied by hand, spanning over a thousand pages.
- Laboriously I checked their ages, starting at the beginning of the alphabet.
- She moved slowly; beckoning her limbs to life, she crawled laboriously along the cavern floor.
- Economic policy is still laid down in laboriously negotiated five-year plans.
- He could discharge a stream of accurately aimed arrows while a Ranger laboriously reloaded his rifle.
- Blood stained his tunic and he was breathing laboriously.
- I write slowly and laboriously, unlike a lot of my fellow bloggers.
- As a journalist, he is perhaps more adept at mining memories than laboriously sifting through archives.
Definition of laboriously in US English:
laboriously
adverbləˈbɔriəsliləˈbôrēəslē
In a way that takes considerable time and effort.
the boys were laboriously copying down sentences from the blackboard
she breathed slowly and laboriously
Example sentencesExamples
- Each page was laboriously copied by hand, spanning over a thousand pages.
- Economic policy is still laid down in laboriously negotiated five-year plans.
- He could discharge a stream of accurately aimed arrows while a Ranger laboriously reloaded his rifle.
- Laboriously I checked their ages, starting at the beginning of the alphabet.
- The ancient, dusty floorboards groaned miserably as he laboriously climbed off his mattress.
- The image was generated by a calculation that could have been done by hand, albeit more laboriously.
- I write slowly and laboriously, unlike a lot of my fellow bloggers.
- Blood stained his tunic and he was breathing laboriously.
- As a journalist, he is perhaps more adept at mining memories than laboriously sifting through archives.
- She moved slowly; beckoning her limbs to life, she crawled laboriously along the cavern floor.