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• A slave’s work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.From the entry cumbersome
• They toiled morning, noon and night to sell their idea and make it work.From the entry morning, noon and night
• They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.From the entry wolf
• He showed tired after a long day's toil.From the entry show
• Toil and care soon wear the spirit.From the entry wear
• A week of filled with grinding toil.From the entry grinding
• For what end should I toil?From the entry end
• Would he let others toil to support him while he languished all afternoon over his sestinas?2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 11. From the entry sestina
• I’d toil away at my job, which I hated with a passion.2009, Romy Miller, “Everything You Know Might Quite Possibly Be Wrong”, in How to Be Wanted: Use the Law of Attraction to Date the Man You…. From the entry fantasy land
• We were starving for tobacco—makhorka, actually, which, according to soldiers, helped survive cold, hunger and everyday toil.2003, David Victor Rosenstein, The Reason to Love This Country, page 36. From the entry makhorka
• He is a loner, hard, resolute, tall, strong but comradely and supports other men in their toils.1999, Malcolm MacLean, “Of Warriors and Blokes: The Problem of Maori Rugby for Pakeha Masculinity in New Zealand”, in Timothy J[ohn]…. From the entry bloke
• The growling circumambient toils of London around them fadedbefore the calm of these innocent precincts.1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 517. From the entry circumambient
• We toiled over the capstan, and late in the afternoon slipped out of the harbour.1951, W. I. B. Crealock, Vagabonding Under Sail, Hastings House (New York), page 211. From the entry capstan
• There is no need to describe how they toiled back up the gorge.1951, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia, London: Geoffrey Bles, →OCLC. From the entry second wind
• A Stomper is one who became overberried and underbusy through no toil of his or her own.1947, Collier's - Volume 119, page 40. From the entry underbusy
• The primordial wants have been satisfied only by incessive toil, at least for most people.1930, Margaret Sanger, The Birth Control Review - Volumes 14-15, page 233. From the entry incessive
• Towards them toiled with shuffling gait two ragged wanderers, becindered and begrimed.1921, George Randolph Chester, Lillian Chester, The Son of Wallingford, page 75. From the entry becindered
• All pilgrimless the panting road that toiled to meet the sky.1921, Mary Josephine Benson, My Pocket Beryl, page 75. From the entry pilgrimless
• They toiled forward along a tiny path on the river’s lip.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Passion”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 311. From the entry lip
• After Hayley’s years of toil with a coil, and the pain of childbirth, I was due a little discomfort.2026 May 11, Tim Burrows, “My first thought after having a vasectomy: why aren’t more British men having them?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry coil
• John Rolfe toiled over his tobacco plants, spending four years perfecting the cultivation and curing of his “sot weed”2018, Kate Livie, “The Roots of the “Sot Weed””, in The Star Democrat, retrieved 19 May 2018. From the entry sot-weed
• And they set us to work draining the swampland and toiling in the sun . . . . . .2016, Ralph Ellison, John Callahan, Juneteenth, →ISBN. From the entry fever swamp
• They set us to toiling . . .2016, Ralph Ellison, John Callahan, Juneteenth, →ISBN. From the entry fever swamp
• She had spent days toiling over her chocolateless chocolate cake.2005, Carole Cadwalladr, The family tree. From the entry chocolateless
• His repetitive toil is his life and reality, and it goes on forever, and it is without any meaning whatever.1999, Louis P. Pojman, Life and Death: A Reader in Moral Problems, page 112. From the entry whatever
• “Let me see your passport,” said old Bill, “I mean your hand.” He was looking for the marks of toil.1930, Andover Newton Bulletin. From the entry lily-handed
• Morning found us still vainly toiling through the passage.1911 June, Jack London, “Cruising in the Solomons”, in The Cruise of the Snark, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 279. From the entry turn tail
• The toiling world is sightless to those who cannot see.1908, The Summary, volume 36, page 72. From the entry sightless
• To the ranks of wonky risk management professionals who have toiled over the minutia of E.S.G. reports for decades now, the political fracas is perplexing.2023 February 28, David Gelles, “How E.S.G. Became Public Enemy No. 1 for Conservatives”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry fracas
• Packing on 12lbs of lean muscle in under four months through hard toil, including front squats and lunges – plus dumbbells, obv.2023 June 5, Rebecca Gillam, “18 celebs who swear by weight training, from Adele to Millie Mackintosh & Frankie Bridge”, in Women's Health. From the entry obv
• The navvies of the Midland Railway toiled for years to build it, enduring grim conditions in shanty towns that were built miles from civilisation.2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival”, in Rail, page 26. From the entry navvy
• In Germany also the kobolds are rather troublesome than otherwise, to the miners, taking pleasure in frustrating their objects, and rendering their toil unfruitful.2011, William Wirt Sikes, Varla Ventura, The Occult Powers of Goats and Other Welsh Tales of Goblins, Fairies, Gnomes, and Elves…. From the entry kobold
• Some came to get rich on their wits and intellect, others on their strength and brawn, toiling from dawn to dusk in soul-crushing labors.2010, Gayle Soucek, Marshall Field's: The Store That Helped Build Chicago, The History Press, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry soul-crushing
• Getting clothing dirty is a daily habit and whichever day one selects for getting it undirty will provide the same amount of toil.1950 November 9, “A Lady’s Complaint”, in The Post-Star, volume XLVI, number 300, Glens Falls, N.Y., page 4. From the entry undirty
• Not even an occasional clod of earth stowed in the middle of a sack, or a few hefty paddy-melons, could make the toil profitable.1941, Kylie Tennant, The Battlers. From the entry paddymelon
• I finally decided, my heart was really in my singing rather than in the drab, hardy soul- searing toil and moil of a collier's existence.1928, Harry Lauder, chapter VII, in Roamin' in the Gloamin',. From the entry moil
• Is she not herself in Egypt also taken in the toils of Franco-Levantine influences, as dominant at Cairo as they are at Constantinople ?1917, Stephen Lucius Gwynn, Gertrude M. Tuckwell, The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart., M.P., page 480. From the entry Franco-Levantine
• The evidence had been sealed, and the yellower papers had toiled in vain to find out just who the prominent corespondent was.1913 June 7, Rupert Hughes, “Memling Must Have an Alibi”, in The Popular Magazine, volume 28, number 6, page 160. From the entry corespondent

Meaning of toil

1. noun Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
2. noun Trouble, strife.
3. noun A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.

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Questions about toil in a sentence

How do you use toil in a sentence?

Toil is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A slave’s work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.”

What is a short sentence with toil?

“For what end should I toil?”

What does toil mean?

Toil means labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.