Sentence examples for I labored for from inspiring English sources

I labored for some time on a coming-of-age novel that never did work out.

As I labored for hours scraping paint off cabinets, applying polyurethane to the cement floor and scrupulously comparing color chips of Trout Gray and Steel Wool, I began to wonder for whom, exactly, I was transforming this ramshackle house into a home.

I labored for a couple hours on a lovely Hungarian cherry soup that Richard Olney had collected in one volume of his "The Good Cook" series.

In prison I labored secretly for months to secure a forbidden shortwave radio, which I kept hidden in a used milk carton.

I labored mightily for several years to cultivate, first, organic apples; then minimally sprayed apples (spraying only in response to a pest invasion); and finally in desperation for home-grown fruit, I surrendered the high moral ground to the apple maggots, codling moths and fungi that were destroying my trees, and resorted to prophylactic application of a chemical wide-spectrum orchard spray.

It was also better than the Blue Apron dish my friend and I labored over for hours.

It was also better than the Blue Apron dish my friend and I labored over for hours.

To make things seem less grim, I booked my clients back to back, so when the green light indicating that my next session had arrived went on, I felt as if I'd reached the place I labored so hard for.

After seven years of servitude to the husband whom I had adored and labored for, for sure, when I left him it wasn't my first choice, it was my only choice.

In early 1968, King told journalist David Halberstam, "For years I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions of society, a little change here, a little change there.

He labored for years to fix every error.