Sentence examples for belaboring from inspiring English sources
"belaboring" is an acceptable word in written English
It is usually used to describe someone emphasizing a point too much or going on and on about something. For example, "My boss kept belaboring the importance of customer service."
verb
Present participle of belabor
They included a three-card-monte dessert and — further belaboring the locavore trend — a cheese-and-beer course that emerged from an old-fashioned Central Park picnic basket.
They're belaboring a point, trying to create this airtight argument, when if you just got to your point in a more direct manner it would be stronger.
The Apple C.E.O Tim Cook took to Twitter today to remember the fiftieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, quoting the President's 1961 Inaugural Address: "Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us".
It was not a successful chapter in Chertoff's (or D'Amato's) career; much time was spent considering Clinton conspiracy theories — for instance, belaboring the Vincent Foster suicide.
I don't feel up to discussing it with you today, and indeed to answer you properly would take an article longer than the first and out of my means, but seriously, Dear Jean, entre nous, you are belaboring new if vastly imperfect ideas with a dead stick.
"It's about getting treated and pampered, but not belaboring the process".
We do better to consider the overlooked similarities between Miller and Waller than to belabor their obvious differences.
As in "Redwood Park," nothing was belabored; passages registered and then dissolved into others.
Lady had umbrella and before leaving belabored him with it.
In any event, Tanowitz didn't belabor it, and kept the dance skipping along.
The Times devoted an editorial to the findings, but, far from expressing concern over a nuclear holocaust, it asked, rhetorically, "Why belabor the obvious?" The President &Congress were mute.
