Usage examples (38)

• To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
• These buildings have been almost entirely erected by the soldiers, who are compelled to work from morning till night at every kind of laborious employment.
• A lot of work too, and puts my 'laborious' breakfast routine into perspective.
• The organisation called it a "laborious" task to add or remove a car from a list on the system and said some cars disappear altogether.