Sentence examples for gratuitous labor from inspiring English sources

In an official report on the engagement at Bull Run, Confederate General Pierre T. Beauregard praised "the patriotic gentlemen of Virginia" whose slaves had, by "gratuitous labor," constructed the fortifications.

That gratuitous anti-labor measure is simply aimed at driving Democrats away and killing the bill.

It's too facile to say the teachers' union got rolled in Springfield, especially at a time when gratuitous anti-labor animus is rampant and unions aren't blind to being flexible.

Darwin was himself a lover of literature (Dickens especially) and labored intensely over the prose of "Origin," especially the metaphors, which he felt were not just gratuitous flourishes, but the most capacious vehicles for his scientific ideas.

Gratuitous, too.

Or gratuitous?

Stark, gratuitous.

Note that gratuitous "lamely".

"They are not gratuitous.

It's just gratuitous.

Literature is necessarily gratuitous.