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The quilt that rested across Sacha's nose and mouth shifted with her belabored breathing.† (source)belabored = talked about something excessively
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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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Again, July felt belabored by the tireless thing in Clara.† (source)
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"Run!" shouted another, belaboring the obvious.† (source)belaboring = talking about something excessively
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Whereupon Dick was supposed to seize the steering wheel, while Perry, wielding his hand-kerchief-wrapped rock, belabored the salesman's head—"opened it up.† (source)belabored = talked about something excessively
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Moody's grandfather wrote in belabored, redundant, didactic prose.† (source)
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Even Tirian's heart grew lighter as he walked ahead of them, humming an old Narnian marching song which had the refrain: Ho, rumble, rumble, rumble, Rumble drum belaboured.† (source)belaboured = talked about something excessivelyunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use belabored.
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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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He saw the village; he was seen coming bending forward upon his horse, belabouring it with great blows, the girths dripping with blood.† (source)belabouring = talking about something excessivelyunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use belaboring.
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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)belabor = talk about something excessively
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Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.† (source)belaboring = talking about something excessively
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He did not wait to see his orders carried out: he knew that he could trust these soldiers—who were still smarting under his rebuke—not to mince matters, when given a free hand to belabour a third party.† (source)belabour = talk about something excessivelyunconventional 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)unbelaboured = not excessively talked aboutstandard 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)belaboured = talked about something excessively
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He bellowed, while he belabored Martin's back: "Well, well, well, well, well, well!† (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)belabouring = talking about something excessively
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