How to Use "belabor" with Example Sentences

1. Counselor , do we really haveto belabor the situation ?

2. I will not belabor the obvious parallel with judas iscariot .

3. Belabor : to attack with blows ; hit , beat , or whip .

4. Not to belabor the point , but proust makes hugo look concise and cogent , even ' sketchy ' .

5. How much more elegant is it to slay your foe , with the roses of irony than to massacre him with the axes of sarcasm or to belabor him with the bludgeon of invective .