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.
• All this labor—all of it legal—paid off.
  — Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
• How much labor is used to pack, store and ship boxes?
  — Ken Bowles, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
• The labor movements of the past fought for more than wages.
  — Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• To him, this is a labor of hope and a labor of grief.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026
• Time to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
  — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
• Most area labor lawyers felt there was no basis for the claims.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 27 Oct. 2017
• Did any labor lawyers who read this just spit out their coffee?
  — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026
• There's a lot to be done, and a lot of it is free, unpaid labor.
  — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 25 Jan. 2019
• In this case, that’s the labor movement.
  — Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• Sunday proved more labor than love.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2026
• Does this give baseball labor peace?
  — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026
• The owner, smelling free labor, agreed.
  — Sofía Pereda, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
• Some are ready to retire and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
  — Bill Keen, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Management wants more of the pie and labor wants a fair split.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026
• To make matters worse, the virus has shrunk the available labor pool.
  — Fortune, 10 Feb. 2020
• If our labor is replaced, will anyone miss us?
  — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
• The machine changed who controlled labor and the terms on which it was done.
  — Christopher Marquis, Time, 30 May 2026
• If states do relax their child labor laws there are some safeguards still in place.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 8 Apr. 2023
• At first, the back-breaking labor almost broke the young man from the city.
  — Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
• But in both cases labor-power is sold.
  — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
• We are wired not just to work, but to make meaning through the act of labor itself.
  — Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025

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.
• Some of the works would be labored over and over and over again.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
• The Bears labored much of the rest of the evening.
  — Jeff Faraudo, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
• The pitchers labored in the first three months that taxed the bullpen.
  — Mark Gonzales, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Some songs are labored over for days and don’t even make the album.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2024
• For those who labor, for those do the work, the seed is planted.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2020
• The curly hair on their chests rose and fell with their labored breathing.
  — Sandra Sidi, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2019
• Stout labored over that large-scale choral work for more than 20 years.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
• Workers labored around the clock to pump water out of the cave.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 10 July 2018
• Irish workers also labored in rail yards and mines in the area.
  — Paula Kane, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
• Her breathing was shallow and labored, and her skin was pale, moist and hot.
  — Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• Low-wage workers must labor for about 14 hours to fill up their tank.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 23 June 2022
• Back in the car, Bleu curled on his lap in a daze, his breathing labored.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
• Workers also labored around the clock to pump water out of the cave.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 18 July 2018
• Often kids are more in tune with what the laboring person needs than some adults.
  — Emma Baty, Redbook, 9 June 2017
• Hammond labored 50 hours over a two week span to create her project.
  — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• Like the women who labor here, the mundu chile is sturdy, tough and resilient.
  — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 19 Apr. 2026
• Hackett labored near where the marker is displayed on the square.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 17 June 2023
• Easy layers and a versatile length mean that you won't be labored down with styling time.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2024
• Still, Boyd was forced to labor through 30 pitches to get three outs.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2021
• Freeland labored at times, but also racked up five strikeouts.
  — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
• In many years on dairy farms, the worker often labored for 10 hours with no breaks.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
• Paul seemed to be laboring after opening the fourth quarter with a jump shot.
  — Jonathan Feigen, Houston Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2018
• Queen looks out the window — and sees a crew of black convicts laboring under the gun.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2019

labor

3 of 3 adjective

• Abrams and other pro-labor figures have rallied around the effort.
  — Tribune Media Services, al, 21 Feb. 2021
• All four Democrats have pitched themselves as pro-labor candidates.
  — Isaac Yu, Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2022
• 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
• Maryland used to have a law forcing a post-Labor Day start, but it was overturned.
  — Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 14 Aug. 2025
• President Biden has embraced a pro-labor stance during his campaign.
  — Robert Peres, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2021
• The longer labor laws stand still, the better corporations get maneuvering around them.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Dec. 2017
• The layoffs are part of a plan announced in February that includes both labor and non-labor reductions.
  — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Newmont has said the layoffs are part of a plan announced in February that includes both labor and non-labor reductions.
  — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Jorts, the fluffy, pro-labor orange tabby, has graced picket signs after recently achieving Internet fame.
  — Allison Prang, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
• Anticipating a post-Labor Day start date, the plan is to have the second picnic grove in place by year’s end, Corsi said.
  — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
• As the month waned, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a host of pro-labor bills.
  — Piper French, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Biden has appointed leadership to the NLRB widely seen as pro-labor.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• Many southern states now open weeks before Labor Day, while some northern states cling to post-Labor Day starts to preserve tourism dollars.
  — Jeanne Allen, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Sweeten up your seasonal rotation with post-Labor Day deals on travel pants starting at just $12, below.
  — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 4 Sep. 2025
• 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
• 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