Example sentences for: toil

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

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

  • It is muscle-building toil, this opening and closing of the poles, and it has earned for the tongs the name East Greenwich accordions . The only music they produce is the whistle of the tongers on the way to the bank.

  • Laborers are tons of soil, in place of sons of toil, not only sounds right and spells right, but has meaning in its revised form.

  • Each weekend morning I would go out to toil anew, and well after dark, lit by headlights of the car, I would realize that pleasure had turned to despair.

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


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