The word 'labored' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that means difficult or strenuous, especially in terms of physical or mental effort. Example: After a long and labored journey, we finally reached the summit of the mountain.
The notion that this syndicate of 168 GOP party elders, a group for whom I once labored, should rigidly determine the party's policy agenda is a profoundly malignant affliction.
Why should it work to undo the benefits that my wife and I have labored so hard to provide?
Workers who labored in temperatures of 100 or more degrees Fahrenheit used rock drills, dynamite, and steam shovels to remove as many as 96 million cubic yards of earth and rock as they lowered the floor of the excavation to within 40 feet of sea-level.
Many people have no idea about the YEARS that you labored to bring an incredibly challenging and complicated biopic to the big screen.
Separately, the Rodong Sinmun, the mouthpiece of the Workers Partyy, recently reported that Kim had "labored on," visiting various facilities braving the hot summer weather.
The President thanks all those who labored in the great cause of weather.
The San Francisco Symphony Chorus labored to follow my handautographed parts, struggling to cope with acres of seemingly identical repeating bars, counting and looking anxiously for cues and generally holding on for dear life.
Serfs from all over Russia labored on it, carrying earth in their hands or shirts, and unknown numbers died.
She labored faithfully at her husband's career (though she migh take a sudden lover), and had a tendency to praise herself for his every success and blame herself for his smallest failure.
At its best, the place captures that feeling of warmth and ease, but at its worst it feels labored and cynical.
Wilson's fictionalization here of Dorothy Parker shows a considerable interest... Wilson, having labored on this slight, distracted tale for some of 1941 and 1942, accumulating two hundred and seven pages of handwritten yellow legal-size lined paper, evidently decided it would be a waste of his own talent to continue.
