How to Use belabor in a Sentence

belabor

verb

• Please don't belabor the point.
• Her habit of belaboring the obvious makes her a very boring speaker.
• He uses his newspaper column to belabor writers for even the most minor grammatical errors.
• But, that doesn't mean the episode won't belabor the point.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 12 June 2018
• But by the film’s belabored end, the franchise has shed its host.
  — Jake Coyle, charlotteobserver, 16 May 2017
• There is no point belaboring the record with the sundry flaws in those charges (see, e.g., here, here, here, and here).
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 8 Apr. 2023
• At the same time, Decker didn’t want to be stuck in the studio for weeks on end belaboring the process.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
• Not to belabor the point, but this is a guy who is always going to be among the league leaders in putting the ball in play.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 12 June 2018
• Why belabor the point, when these quick flashes get the joke across themselves?
  — vanityfair.com, 5 Mar. 2017
• Not to belabor a hackneyed metaphor, but designers here did move the ball down the field.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2022
• There’s no point in belaboring the details of the defeat, though.
  — Ryan Young, ajc, 7 Sep. 2017
• Walz knows all of this, and also that there's no point in belaboring calls made eight weeks ago.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 26 May 2018
• To belabor the point, or even to bring it up now, seemed like pushing Machinist's face in it.
  — Michael Wolff, WIRED, 1 June 1998
• The top battle of camp will get plenty of attention, so no need to belabor the point here.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 16 July 2021
• Love & Death has just enough fun with this idea without belaboring the point.
  — Chris Vognar, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
• The parallels with events at the start of this century are plain to see, yet the movie, to its credit, does not belabor them.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• Rather than belabor the events of the ensuing days, suffice it to say, the kitchen was also involved.
  — Dorothy Dworkin, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Dec. 2020
• Don’t belabor your point No one likes a boor or an obsessive, so don’t be one.
  — Dwight Silverman, San Antonio Express-News, 3 July 2018
• To call this self-serving would be to belabor the obvious.
  — David L. Ulin, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
• Other books scattered across the stage, at one point lined up in a quasi-enclosure, belabor the point.
  — Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022
• Curtain Call: The final number utilizes a door and was a bit lengthy and belabored.
  — Lania Berger, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 May 2017
• Of course, there's no audience as in SNL to point out where the jokes are — if there are jokes there — but too many belabor the easy and obvious.
  — Irv Letofsky, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2019
• But the point Mainieri belabored -- and justifiably so -- were the five errors that let Texas Southern hold a 7-5 lead after the top of the fifth.
  — Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 2 June 2017
• There’s also a new trailer: And the belabored Bloodstained slipped its release date again.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 24 Aug. 2018
• With such sharp writing and strong performances, there’s no need to belabor the push-pull between home life and career.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023
• Gillett and Bettinelli-Olpin have a lot of fun with those ideas without belaboring them too much.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• Just imagine exercising with nothing but the sound of your own panting in your ear, or the belabored breathing of the guy next to you on the treadmill.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 26 Oct. 2017
• Under deadline, though, Keyes couldn’t belabor the process.
  — Michael Cavna, ajc, 4 Oct. 2017
• Cincinnati Enquirer Not to belabor this, but it's not been a banner year.
  — The Enquirer, 26 Nov. 2020
• Rather than belabor the point, Lue took a different approach on Friday.
  — Michael Singer, USA TODAY, 1 June 2018

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024