How to Use labor in a Sentence

labor

1 of 3 noun

• A day's labor should get the job done.
• The cost of repairing the car includes parts and labor.
• He rested from his labors.
• She began to have labor pains this morning.
• She has been in labor for several hours.
• Getting the job done will require many hours of difficult labor.
• The proposed new law is opposed by organized labor.
• She had a difficult labor.
• She went into labor this morning.
• The prestige of the labor movement was much greater then.
  — Louis Uchitelle, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• Some are ready to retire and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
  — Bill Keen, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Most area labor lawyers felt there was no basis for the claims.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 27 Oct. 2017
• This has been the history of the labor movement all along.
  — Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
• To make matters worse, the virus has shrunk the available labor pool.
  — Fortune, 10 Feb. 2020
• But our skilled labor has been an issue for years and years.
  — Salena Zito, Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2020
• The effects on the labor market will be deep but hard to measure.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• There's a lot to be done, and a lot of it is free, unpaid labor.
  — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 25 Jan. 2019
• The shortage of labor has been a big issue for the industry.
  — Eben Shapiro, Time, 22 June 2021
• Growth is likely to be too strong for the labor market to handle.
  — Joel Naroff, Philly.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• A year later, the current sellers are ready to show off the fruits of their labor.
  — cleveland, 6 Nov. 2020
• And before the advent of labor laws, children were part of that toil.
  — Maria Teresa Hart, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
• The Seattle port has been closed in recent days because of the labor strife.
  — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• This current shock to the labor market has been even more extreme.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 2 June 2020
• But that statistic comes in a tight labor market and should be taken with a grain of salt.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 11 Aug. 2021
• That’s a crucial part of what the labor movement has always done.
  — Livia Gershon, Longreads, 28 June 2018
• Goods and labor flow back and forth, helping tourism and the economy on both sides.
  — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 6 May 2023
• The Pro Act is being called the most sweeping change to labor law in decades.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 15 Apr. 2021
• But what happens next in the labor market is the big wild card for inflation.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
• The same would hold true for the new president’s choice to be secretary of labor.
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 25 Nov. 2020
• If states do relax their child labor laws there are some safeguards still in place.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 8 Apr. 2023

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labor

2 of 3 verb

• The truck labored up the hill.
• We should honor those who labored so long to make the truth known.
• I have been laboring through this book for months.
• Workers labored in the vineyard.
• She has a tendency to labor the obvious.
• She has labored in vain to convince them to accept her proposal.
• He labored for several years as a miner.
• The pitchers labored in the first three months that taxed the bullpen.
  — Mark Gonzales, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Workers labored around the clock to pump water out of the cave.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 10 July 2018
• The curly hair on their chests rose and fell with their labored breathing.
  — Sandra Sidi, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2019
• People labor each day to keep the world clean and running.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2022
• For those who labor, for those do the work, the seed is planted.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2020
• Workers also labored around the clock to pump water out of the cave.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 18 July 2018
• He hadn’t won in two years and was laboring in the final round.
  — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 29 May 2018
• Hackett labored near where the marker is displayed on the square.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 17 June 2023
• Their greatest friend turned out to be the laboring poor of the countryside.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• Back in the car, Bleu curled on his lap in a daze, his breathing labored.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
• But most of the humor felt labored, which left the mystery as the main reason to keep watching.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
• Queen looks out the window — and sees a crew of black convicts laboring under the gun.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• Often kids are more in tune with what the laboring person needs than some adults.
  — Emma Baty, Redbook, 9 June 2017
• And on every hill, Chris would just labor up this thing.
  — Paddy O'Connell, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2023
• These are people who have lived here and followed the laws and labored here and are now getting a voice at the table.
  — David Sharos, Aurora Beacon-News, 5 May 2018
• Often kids are more in tune with what the laboring person needs than some adults.
  — Emma Baty, Redbook, 9 June 2017
• Liam recalls laboring around the clock, often jumping from shifts in the middle of the night to the day and back again.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
• Her breathing was shallow and labored, and her skin was pale, moist and hot.
  — Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• Paul seemed to be laboring after opening the fourth quarter with a jump shot.
  — Jonathan Feigen, Houston Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2018
• The hack promises a tasty and transportable soup without having to spend hours laboring over a stove to get it.
  — Ashia Aubourg, SELF, 13 Oct. 2023
• The degree attainment helps shed light on the reasons people choose to labor longer.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz at Work, 5 Sep. 2019
• For five years the shipmates labored in the cotton, rice, and sugarcane fields.
  — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020
• His Friday performance got off to a slow start, and the pacing seemed labored in the first act.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 4 June 2017

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labor

3 of 3 adjective

• Abrams and other pro-labor figures have rallied around the effort.
  — Tribune Media Services, al, 21 Feb. 2021
• Siding with the bosses to deny workers paid sick leave and prevent a strike is not pro-labor.
  — Toluse Olorunnipa, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
• All four Democrats have pitched themselves as pro-labor candidates.
  — Isaac Yu, Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2022
• The longer labor laws stand still, the better corporations get maneuvering around them.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Dec. 2017
• With Emma in the pre-labor room, Edmond decided to take a video of their last moments as a family of two.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 7 Aug. 2020
• President Biden has embraced a pro-labor stance during his campaign.
  — Robert Peres, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2021
• But the staffers who work for those lawmakers and help craft those pro-labor bills are barred under California law from forming a union themselves.
  — Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 June 2022
• The boycott was a response to low wages for drivers and anti-labor practices at Coors headquarters in Colorado.
  — Fifth & Mission Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2021
• Biden favors the broader, pro-labor definition of joint employer.
  — Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2020
• Pro-labor experts have said many may feel intimidated by companies that could undermine the unionized shop.
  — CBS News, 28 Mar. 2022
• Pro-labor experts say many may feel intimidated by companies that could undermine the unionized shop.
  — chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• Labor leaders said now is a time to build their ranks due to worker shortages, the pandemic struggles and because a pro-labor president is in the White House.
  — Jesse Newman, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2021
• Abruzzo is also Biden’s best chance at achieving his goal to be the most pro-labor president in US history.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2022
• In the past year, more young people on TikTok have expressed pro-labor sentiment, speaking out about fair pay and worker’s rights.
  — Caroline O'Donovan, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• But Jones said the union was willing to give Edwards another shot, seeing her as a strong pro-labor voice in Congress — and a voice for women.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
• As the month waned, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a host of pro-labor bills.
  — Piper French, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2021
• It was based on an original idea of Fonda’s and remains a classic for its pro-labor, feminist take on making the workplace a more equitable space for all.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• Biden has appointed leadership to the NLRB widely seen as pro-labor.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• Moreover, Weil’s loss was a blow for Biden, who is certainly the most pro-labor president in decades, perhaps ever.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• Democrats were split on the proposition, with some old-school, pro-labor liberals simply unwilling to vote against the concept of collective bargaining.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 5 May 2021
• The pro-labor Left has struggled under the reality of this system, too; private unionization is down to about 6 percent of the work force.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
• Part of these revenues are paid as staking yields to citizens, allowing everyone that participates in the platform to share the output of its economy as non-labor earnings.
  — Tascha Che, Wired, 9 Feb. 2022
• Weil’s withdrawal followed a punishing campaign by business interests to paint his pro-labor views as radical.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
• The councilman noted that his heavily union district, which includes San Pedro, would not warm to a candidate who was not pro-labor.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• False Facebook is not removing a photo of Tlaib being arrested during a pro-labor rally in Detroit.
  — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 31 July 2020
• Vail has a long history of discouraging unionization efforts among its workers and has hired anti-labor consultants to fight union drives at Colorado resorts.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Jan. 2022
• The anti-labor Reagan scuttled the rule, first by delaying its enforcement date and later by subjecting it to other forms of bureaucratic torture.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 2 Feb. 2022
• Jorts, the fluffy, pro-labor orange tabby, has graced picket signs after recently achieving Internet fame.
  — Allison Prang, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
• But Biden chose the fourth and absolute worst option, compromising his credibility as a pro-labor president.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
• Their budgets were largely insulated during eras of austerity and anti-labor backlash.
  — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024