Sentence examples for laborious and hard from inspiring English sources

One method, using a "pricking iron", which looks like a fork, is laborious and hard to get straight; the other uses a "pricking wheel" – like a pastry edger – which zips along neatly but is much less satisfying.

Although we usually accomplish pixel labeling by drawing a polygon on the image to annotate a region composed of pixels with the same class and fill it with a certain color, several factors will still make pixel labeling a hard and laborious task, such as various scales and shapes of the polygons, the unclear criterion how small a region can be ignored, and some regions with uncertain labels.

The disadvantage of reporter assays is that they are laborious, sensitive upon the region chosen for cloning, and that they require hard and complex work for trasfection [ 330].

The work is hard, and Mara Rockliff ("My Heart Will Not Sit Down") doesn't sugarcoat the slow, laborious nature of the job.

- Offshoot propagation is difficult, laborious, and therefore expensive.

"It is a new sound," said the BBC, "suggestive of emotion, sensation, mood, rather than the literal moaning of the wind or the opening of a door". Such things are now so easily achieved with digital technology that it's hard to grasp how laborious – and groundbreaking – this all was.

The process is laborious and delicate.

Development was slow, laborious and rare.

That will be laborious and expensive.

The work was laborious, and surgically invasive.

Recruiting sperm donors is both laborious and complicated.