Example sentences for: toiled

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

  • Throughout most of history children were net assets--they toiled in the fields, mucked out the barn, and cared for their parents in old age.

  • Naming the building after Reynoso seemed appropriate because the former justice came from a farm worker family that toiled in fields from Orange County to the Central Valley, said Jose Padilla, the group's statewide director.

  • Ah, I'd forgotten all about editorial cartoonist Ranan Lurie, for whom I once toiled as a graphics assistant (wage: $5 an hour, no benefits, in 1987) for two months, until you retrieved my repressed memories.

  • It is I, the great Shopping Avenger, who has toiled without pause this past month (all right, I paused) to right the wrongs inflicted on the buying masses by the dark forces of turbocharged capitalism.

  • The story, narrated by the now-grown Michael in the shopworn manner of The Glass Menagerie , is set in motion by the return of the boy's Uncle Jack (Michael Gambon) from Africa, where he has toiled as a missionary priest.


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