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 by the film’s belabored end, the franchise has shed its host.
    — Jake Coyle, charlotteobserver, 16 May 2017
  • The gags are both belabored and feeble.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 June 2026
  • Why belabor the point, when these quick flashes get the joke across themselves?
    — vanityfair.com, 5 Mar. 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
  • Not to belabor a hackneyed metaphor, but designers here did move the ball down the field.
    — New York Times, 22 June 2022
  • 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
  • Love & Death has just enough fun with this idea without belaboring the point.
    — Chris Vognar, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
  • There’s no point in belaboring the details of the defeat, though.
    — Ryan Young, ajc, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The top battle of camp will get plenty of attention, so no need to belabor the point here.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 16 July 2021
  • 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
  • Other books scattered across the stage, at one point lined up in a quasi-enclosure, belabor the point.
    — Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • This is not to belabor any one structural feature of physicians’ training.
    — Maggie Salinger, STAT, 27 July 2021
  • 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
  • There are a few lumpy patches, moments when the revision over-explains itself or belabors a point.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
  • No need to belabor the point—the emotions are obvious from the music itself.
    — Joshua Minsoo Kim, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Some people are just doing their jobs, telling us if a new TV show is belabored or boring.
    — Alanna Bennett, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • And with that comes the next five months of belaboring over the biggest fixes, adds and improvements your favorite teams need to close the gap.
    — Dan Pompei, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The movie is effervescent; there’s nothing belabored about it.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Gillett and Bettinelli-Olpin have a lot of fun with those ideas without belaboring them too much.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Gillett and Bettinelli-Olpin have a lot of fun with those ideas without belaboring them too much.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • This isn’t to belabor the point of the final three weeks, because the Chiefs didn’t exactly have much of anything to play for.
    — Sam McDowell 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2026
  • At one point, a moderator needed to step in, and advised journalists to not belabor the point.
    — Alex Coffey, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Cincinnati Enquirer Not to belabor this, but it's not been a banner year.
    — The Enquirer, 26 Nov. 2020

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