Example sentences for: toil

How can you use “toil” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The sheer toil experienced by most Shetlanders is another source of proverbs: Every man's back is shapit for his ain burden ; and A moothful is as guid as a belly fu firmly reminds of the days of real want.

  • He was coyly gleeful about how lucky we are to toil in this chaos: to see the early snowdrops pushing up from the snow year after year or some flower graciously volunteering where you never would have been clever enough to plant it; or just to watch a couple of dragonflies having sex on a hot summer day.

  • The expansive job market makes young people increasingly hesitant to trade their robust starting salaries for tuition debt and library toil.

  • America graduated from a "culture of toil, sacrifice, saving, and abstinence" to a "culture of consumption, lifestyle, and quality of life."

  • The fishermen toil at this job, working the poles in and out, in and out, endlessly.


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