Sentence examples for spent labor from inspiring English sources

It's almost impossible not to wonder how we spent Labor Day last year.

On a dramatically different topic, Daphne Wysham spent Labor Day weekend purposefully getting arrested, then writing about it.

"I spent Labor Day weekend in a ball on the couch reading and reading and taking notes".

Negotiators for the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and the school district spent Labor Day at the bargaining table.

"Just, 'No problem.' " He and his wife spent Labor Day at a cookout with his grown daughter, Jessica, and three granddaughters.

Mr. Mulvaney has already signed on as an economic advisor to the Perry campaign, a small coup that the campaign spent Labor Day promoting.

Every year, thousands of woman-hours are spent laboring with tweezers, pencils and brushes.

This was after a long summer spent laboring in the salt mine of a novel-in-progress, far from multiplexes and beyond reach of a reliable wireless signal.

Articulate and gracious, with the manner of a genteel New England professor, he explained that the motel had been his retirement dream during long years spent laboring in Alaska's mining and logging industries.

But in the meanwhile, Canada's up-and-coming science and engineering researchers wait anxiously to see if the government is prepared to put its money where its mouth is, or if all of those hours spent laboring over equipment grants were really a waste of time.

Most nights, the place was filled with the clientele typical of a Midwestern dive: white men with hunched shoulders from days spent laboring and nights planted on a barstool; women whose makeup failed to mask deep wrinkles formed by a lifetime inside clouds of cigarette smoke.