Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences
with labored below are plain text.
How to pronounce labored in American English
“labored” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to labored the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “labored” in: all accents
“labored” in real sentences — American speakers
46 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
generations labored to build.
State Department
-
He labored in the Sun and hot longer than I have currently been alive.
CDC
-
These are the faces of children who once labored in workshops, in factories, in
Dept of Labor
Words that sound like “labored”
Words one sound away from labored — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “labored”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of labored. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.