How to Use labor-intensive in a Sentence

labor-intensive

adjective

• The kitchen is the heart of the home—and often the messiest and most labor-intensive to clean.
  — Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2025
• Then comes the most detailed and labor-intensive part of the process.
  — Adiel Kaplan, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
• It’s seen as a labor-intensive and risky job, Kaneko said.
  — Hannah Kirshner, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2023
• Time The packing of the tires to build load-bearing walls is very labor-intensive.
  — Maria Marabito, Treehugger, 3 July 2023
• Piles of the seagrass on the beach smell bad and can be labor-intensive and costly to remove.
  — USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
• This little science project to make the prosciutto rings is the most labor-intensive part of the recipe.
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 13 June 2025
• But our own labor-intensive projects in the kitchen can also convey our care and love.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• But making a cheesecake at home can seem a labor-intensive and time-sucking task the first time around.
  — Lisa Waterman Gray, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• The Cost of Control The success of this labor-intensive approach hinges upon the zeal of its enforcers.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 25 May 2024
• The dish is highly labor-intensive, with three different cooks working on it over the course of three shifts.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2023
• The funds will also help staff labor-intensive projects like these on refuges that have very few employees, Miller said.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2024
• Fishing was a labor-intensive process of weaving baskets from reeds and laying them in the water to trap fish in the current.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
• In total, the process took me about 10 minutes from start to finish; slicing up the strawberries was the most labor-intensive step.
  — Caroline Tien, SELF, 18 June 2024
• The Cadet Crew met twice a week with between 10 and 26 people, working on labor-intensive projects like clearing brush.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2025
• This is a pretty labor-intensive task that has to be done repeatedly every few months for the rest of the turtle’s life.
  — Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2024
• Despite how labor-intensive the process may seem, her main motive was quite the opposite: ease.
  — Tayler Adigun, Essence, 5 Aug. 2024
• These processes would have been time- and labor-intensive, which suggests the reward must have been worth the effort.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2025
• Cannabis is among the nation’s most labor-intensive crops, on par with strawberries.
  — Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Many positions come with perks like housing and lift tickets, though wages tend to be low for these labor-intensive roles.
  — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2025
• That’s obviously labor-intensive, and there were a lot of lights involved, but the concept is simple: Create a sky to light all of the sets that are within the space.
  — Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• Winik said the surge in cases causes more delays because initial case filing is one of the more labor-intensive stages of the court system.
  — Christopher Cann, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
• True vanilla is a demanding crop, so labor-intensive that at times the market value of the beans has surpassed that of silver, weight for weight.
  — Ligaya Mishan Melody Melamed, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Each one takes years of fine-tuning and revisions, a process that is labor-intensive and challenging to scale in a way that would serve the 47 million acres of wheat fields draped across the nation.
  — Ryan Kellman, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024
• Given how labor-intensive setting up thousands of accounts would be, Smith paid people in the U.S. and abroad to help, per the indictment.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024
• As the mom of two small kids with a demanding job, my life is both quotidian and fairly labor-intensive.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
• Chile peppers, which are usually picked by hand, are a labor-intensive crop.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
• An older method in which a labor-intensive form of yeast starter is used to begin fermentation.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• In Vietnam, sticky rice cakes are a beloved, labor-intensive holiday treat.
  — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
• The labor-intensive process eventually led the team to find 15 unfamiliar-looking fish, the study said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft july 23, Miami Herald, 23 July 2025
• Given that many forms of manufacturing are labor-intensive, any country where the cost of labor is lower than the cost in the U.S. can exploit such an opportunity.
  — Sheldon H. Jacobson, Twin Cities, 23 July 2025