LABOUR in a Sentence

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On the other hand, the slaves, in many cases, had mastered some handicraft, and none were ashamed, and few unwilling, to labour.

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 Meanings and Examples of LABOUR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
labour
 n.  effort expended on particular task; act of mother giving birth; time period during which mother gives birth
Classic Sentence: (145 in 10 pages)
1  The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  That labour put a distinction between them and common: that added something to them more than nature, the common mother of all, had done; and so they became his private right.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  The labour that was mine, removing them out of that common state they were in, hath fixed my property in them.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  He by his labour does, as it were, inclose it from the common.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  God, when he gave the world in common to all mankind, commanded man also to labour, and the penury of his condition required it of him.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  improve it for the benefit of life, and therein lay out something upon it that was his own, his labour.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  God commanded, and his wants forced him to labour.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  So that God, by commanding to subdue, gave authority so far to appropriate: and the condition of human life, which requires labour and materials to work on, necessarily introduces private possessions.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  Right and conveniency went together; for as a man had a right to all he could employ his labour upon, so he had no temptation to labour for more than he could make use of.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  And my children also, being born of me, had a right to be maintained out of my labour or substance.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
12  Hence labour was something that both races on the slave plantation sought to escape.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
13  They unconsciously had imbibed the feeling that manual labour was not the proper thing for them.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
14  On the other hand, the slaves, in many cases, had mastered some handicraft, and none were ashamed, and few unwilling, to labour.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
15  Ever since then I have had no patience with any school for my race in the South which did not teach its students the dignity of labour.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
Example Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
16  Business sweetens pleasure, and labour sweetens rest.
17  I know no such thing as genius, it is nothing but labour and diligence.
18  He was sentenced to two years in a labour camp.
19  The two parties of labour and capital have bargained a new wage increase.
20  When you estimated the cost of the repairs, you forgot to factor in the labour.
21  They were now ready to create a national labour federation.
22  The production line involves a high degree of specialization of labour.
23  In the end, after much to-ing and fro-ing between the labour and liberal democrat camps, a deal was struck.
24  Don't labour the reader with unnecessary detail.
25  Shortage of labour power retarded our economic development.
26  He forced his thralls into hard labour.
27  The price will include the labour and materials.
28  Industry is facing a serious labour shortage.
29  Repairs involve skilled labour, which can be expensive.
30  The booklet contains information on pain relief during labour.