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.

  • It's a measure of just how angry Cat workers are that they would rather toil along without a contract than accept one that feels as if, as the Washington Times so bluntly put it in a headline, "The UAW gives in to Caterpillar."

  • And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

  • About the best that can be done for these people is an effort to create a world of simple, decent, honorable toil for them.


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