Sample Sentences forbelabor (auto-selected)
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It's ridiculous that a science writer for a major newspaper would feel compelled to belabor a fact so obvious.† (source)
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The quilt that rested across Sacha's nose and mouth shifted with her belabored breathing.† (source)
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Again, July felt belabored by the tireless thing in Clara.† (source)
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"Run!" shouted another, belaboring the obvious.† (source)
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Moody's grandfather wrote in belabored, redundant, didactic prose.† (source)
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Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.† (source)
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He moved slowly, stiffly, and in the reluctance of his gestures I saw Mister Philip's own slow passage through the grass, his steps ghostly, belaboured, as though he were savouring the rustle and cries of those green fields one last time.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use belabored.
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Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound.† (source)
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Reich read the ancient spidery cursive slowly: To those who come after me: The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.† (source)
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Tiagunova seemed to be chasing Ogryzkova, perhaps belaboring her with her fists whenever she caught up with her.† (source)
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Well, William Dobbin had for once forgotten the world, and was away with Sindbad the Sailor in the Valley of Diamonds, or with Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peribanou in that delightful cavern where the Prince found her, and whither we should all like to make a tour; when shrill cries, as of a little fellow weeping, woke up his pleasant reverie; and looking up, he saw Cuff before him, belabouring a little boy.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use belaboring.
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Neither of them possessed energy or wit to belabour me soundly, but they insulted me as coarsely as they could in their little way: especially Celine, who even waxed rather brilliant on my personal defects —deformities she termed them.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use belabor.
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Sancho was amazed afresh at the extent of his master's knowledge, as much as if he had never known him, for it seemed to him that there was no story or event in the world that he had not at his fingers' ends and fixed in his memory, and he said to him, "In truth, master mine, if this that has happened to us to-day is to be called an adventure, it has been one of the sweetest and pleasantest that have befallen us in the whole course of our travels; we have come out of it unbelaboured and undismayed, neither have we drawn sword nor have we smitten the earth with our bodies, nor have we been left famishing; blessed be God that he has let me see such a thing with my own eyes!"† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbelaboured means not and reverses the meaning of belaboured. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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We sit as though in a boiler that is being belaboured from without on all sides.† (source)
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They cried out to their respective households, belabored and slew people round about, and went entirely mad.† (source)
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Ah, when one looks at our young people, Prince, one would like to take Peter the Great's old cudgel out of the museum and belabor them in the Russian way till all the nonsense jumps out of them.† (source)
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