How to Use labor-intensive in a Sentence

labor-intensive

adjective
  • Then comes the most detailed and labor-intensive part of the process.
    — Adiel Kaplan, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Spring cleaning doesn’t have to be a labor-intensive process.
    — Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
  • But our own labor-intensive projects in the kitchen can also convey our care and love.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The kitchen is the heart of the home—and often the messiest and most labor-intensive to clean.
    — Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2025
  • Piles of the seagrass on the beach smell bad and can be labor-intensive and costly to remove.
    — USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • This is a costly and labor-intensive way to contend with the problem at hand.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Each piece was dyed by hand, one by one, in a labor-intensive process that the artist describes as tactile and slow.
    — Carmen F De Terenzio, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
  • But making a cheesecake at home can seem a labor-intensive and time-sucking task the first time around.
    — Lisa Waterman Gray, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Don't make everything hinge around some big labor-intensive main.
    — Bon Appétit, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Time The packing of the tires to build load-bearing walls is very labor-intensive.
    — Maria Marabito, Treehugger, 3 July 2023
  • There’s no getting around the fact that doing laundry is a labor-intensive chore.
    — Joseph Erbentraut, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2026
  • His parents worked in restaurants or in anything else labor-intensive, where work hours were long.
    — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Chile peppers, which are usually picked by hand, are a labor-intensive crop.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
  • Cannabis is among the nation’s most labor-intensive crops, on par with strawberries.
    — Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • This little science project to make the prosciutto rings is the most labor-intensive part of the recipe.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 13 June 2025
  • The wigs are equally labor-intensive.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • The dish is highly labor-intensive, with three different cooks working on it over the course of three shifts.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2023
  • This little science project to make the prosciutto rings is the most labor-intensive part of the recipe.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 2 June 2026
  • Checking them off your spring-cleaning to-do list now will clear the way for more labor-intensive deep-cleaning tasks down the line.
    — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Many positions come with perks like housing and lift tickets, though wages tend to be low for these labor-intensive roles.
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2025
  • Good call having this fellow do two sketches in such labor-intensive makeup.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Most barbecue joints are only open on select days due to the labor-intensive process of smoking meats.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 June 2026
  • An older method in which a labor-intensive form of yeast starter is used to begin fermentation.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The funds will also help staff labor-intensive projects like these on refuges that have very few employees, Miller said.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2024
  • The labor-intensive process and the space required limit the al pastor to a once-a-week offering.
    — Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Thanks to their short season and labor-intensive harvesting, a bunch may go for $20 per pound.
    — Kelly Vaughan, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
  • What kind of half-mad maniacs would embark on such a strange and labor-intensive endeavor?
    — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2024
  • In Vietnam, sticky rice cakes are a beloved, labor-intensive holiday treat.
    — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
  • These vineyards are labor-intensive and difficult to farm.
    — Emily Price, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • As the mom of two small kids with a demanding job, my life is both quotidian and fairly labor-intensive.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023

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