laboured in a sentence

Examples

1. I find this a bit laboured; can it be expressed more simply?
2. He laboured there with great zeal and success for forty-two years.
3. The laboured conversations between the two men summarise the plot at regular intervals.
4. His productions are not spontaneous but rather rely on long, laboured thought.
5. The bronchioles ( small airways ) fill up with mucus leading to laboured breathing.
6. Although capable of painting quickly, he often laboured for years over a painting.
7. Pressens?laboured for the revival of biblical studies.
8. Alongside French-Canadians, thousands of Irish laboured in difficult conditions and terrain.
9. During World War I conscientious objectors laboured at Dyce Work Camp at Dyce Quarries.
10. He laboured with zeal, but not without many conflicts, until his death.