laboriously
laboriously laboriously /lə ˈbɔ ri əs li/
Definition(s):
- (adv) in a laborious manner
Usage(s):
- Behind him, a blue-smocked boy and a white-smocked girl laboriously lit the 80 candles on a dove-dotted birth day cake bought by the children themselves.
- One hundred and sixty hand-picked Chinese police began laboriously to learn the Japanese language.
- The radium discovered in 1898 by Pierre and Marie Curie was laboriously extracted from a radioactive mineral called pitchblende, found in what is now Czechoslovakia.
News
- The Senate provided the country a rare and modest glimpse of bipartisanship in its 68-32 passage of the comprehensive immigration reform bill laboriously accomplished by the Gang of Eight - four Democrats and four Republicans.on July 2, 2013 Source: The St. Augustine Record
Quotes
- "We know the English. We know their qualities," Clerc said. "They started laboriously and then they pull out a match like that."on Oct 6, 2007 By: Vincent Clerc Source: International Herald Tribune
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