How to Use toil in a Sentence

toil

1 of 2 noun

• He’s seen the toil and touch, along with the blood-lust to find the edge and fine-tune his game.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2021
• Some virtue in the toil itself?—might be lost in using it to bake cookies.
  — Amanda Parrish Morgan, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
• The scientists' toil wouldn’t win any green-thumb awards down here on Earth.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 7 June 2022
• Death takes the reins of a poor farmer’s horses, suggesting that the end of life is a relief from toil.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 24 Mar. 2022
• A lot of kids toil in the mines, ultimately bringing some of that ore to the markets.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 14 June 2021
• For me, at least, suffering on the trail means that the pain and toil tend to crowd out space for convenience.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2022
• And before the advent of labor laws, children were part of that toil.
  — Maria Teresa Hart, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
• Half of them work mostly at home and the rest toil at home some days and in their Sherman Oaks office on others.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• Let ‘em toil months for a free Signature Latte in, say, Newark.
  — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• If true cohesion, borne of toil and time, is just too hard to pull off in L.A., where the spotlight burns harshly and the king’s reign is finite?
  — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 4 Jan. 2024
• The juggling could have rankled Hardrick, filling him with the desire to cleave the toil from his identity as an artist.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2022
• No one wants to hear that they are being taken advantage of or that their toil didn’t mean anything.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• That visceral sense of departure, not just from the shore but from the daily toil, is what draws us back year after year.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Across the nation, state governments are struggling to operate in the wake of the past year of economic toil.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2020
• Down the road, three older farmers from Ms. Gao’s village toil with shovels, digging a ditch.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2023
• The report identifies two reasons for the weekend toil.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2023
• In the placid, rolling landscape that unfurls behind him, women in traditional dress toil in the fields.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
• That goes double double toil and trouble for Halloween masks.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 13 Oct. 2022
• Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that.
  — Jim Millercommunity Voices Contributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2022
• Dana’s voyage includes months of toil collecting and curing cowhides; at one stop, the hides must be tossed from a ridge down a 400-foot bluff from the ranch above to the waiting ship below.
  — Dean King, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
• But even after decades of toil and a tour-de-force measurement, the evidence is not conclusive.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2020
• Just shows you that every bit of progress that is won through toil and struggle is followed by periods of regression.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2023
• But first comes some more immediate payoff for all that toil, all those tears, a Bruin having a ball in a bowl that puts a bow on his career.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• Many who had worked on the election, exhausted from months of unrelenting toil, took leaves of absence or moved on to other jobs.
  — Craig Timberg, Elizabeth Dwoskin, Reed Albergotti, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2021
• Lumeo aims to reduce the toil involved in building vision AI solutions.
  — Janakiram Msv, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• And yet, our forebears did not dream of our communities to be mired in struggle and toil for generations.
  — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• Outdoor spaces require a certain amount of time and toil, Freda said, which can catch some people by surprise.
  — Curbed, 17 Mar. 2023
• In doing so, the justices signaled that the ACA is here to stay, despite all the toil and treasure expended by a decade of conservative activists to wreck it.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 June 2021
• Double double toil and trouble—spooky season is just around the corner, and your home is due for its annual scary makeover (err, under?).
  — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 21 July 2023
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble...
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Jan. 2022

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toil

2 of 2 verb

• They were toiling up a steep hill.
• The villagers toiled in a scene of horror: The air was filled with the stench of dead cattle.
  — Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Their victims toil on the lower rungs of the workforce.
  — Alexia FernÁndez Campbell and Joe Yerardi, Chron, 4 May 2021
• Workers toiled over the weekend to clear the wreck and restore the mangled tracks.
  — Sameer Yasir, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
• Screenwriter John Orloff spent thousands of hours over the course of a decade toiling on the script.
  — Chloe Melas, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2024
• The Heat pull away in the fourth quarter as the Pacers toil without the injured Victor Oladipo.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Aug. 2020
• The tech and auto giants could still toil for years on their driverless car projects.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2021
• Boyarsky toils in a back room drenched in natural light, her cat Roxy at her side.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
• These workers toiled for long hours at the site—which doubled as a prison—alongside donkeys to grind grain for bread.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• Bennett’s big break arrived in 1949 while toiling away on the New York club circuit.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 21 July 2023
• Many are still forced to toil as scavengers, cleaning sewers and septic tanks by hand.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
• From those who were transported here in chains more than 400 years ago and forced to toil land stolen from its Indigenous guardians.
  — Keith Magee, CNN, 24 May 2021
• Those rooms are often oversubscribed, forcing workers to wait for their turn—and sometimes to toil through the night alone.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
• Recently, DeBose has been toiling away on the film side of the industry.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2024
• But unlike some of her allies who toiled to Frenchify the American palate in the 20th century, Child was no snob.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
• In the early days, steelworkers toiled in extreme heat, catching steel hot rods with cotton gloves and tongs.
  — Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
• Hundreds of thousands of workers still toil underground here in some of the world’s oldest and deepest shafts.
  — Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2023
• The vast majority of the country’s working class does not toil on the factory floor with a union to look out for their interests.
  — Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
• Over the last month, historian Marvin Dunn could be found toiling in a garden.
  — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
• Shocking footage reached viewers across the globe as first responders toiled among steel and concrete beneath the water that the landmark span once bridged.
  — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
• Wine producers do not toil for months so that their wine can be put to industrial uses.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2023
• My heartfelt thanks go out to all involved, especially the cast and crew who diligently toiled behind the scenes.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2023
• In the meantime, workers who toil in the heat have rights, regardless of their immigration status.
  — Jessica E. Martinez, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2023
• While Coleman toiled away in the Corcoran law library, Soto often was unable to leave his cell.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Bands could spend years toiling away to create something half as impactful.
  — Jeff Yerger, SPIN, 4 Mar. 2024
• Not quite two years ago, the Philippines had toiled to beat Nepal in a qualifying game just to earn a place in a low-profile regional tournament.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• So in Shaanxi and elsewhere, resilient seniors are picking up odd jobs, toiling in fields, and trying new crops and greenhouse farming to make ends meet.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2023
• Behind the scenes, McCarthy is toiling to persuade far-right lawmakers to abandon the tactic.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• Behind the scenes, Mr. McCarthy is toiling to persuade far-right lawmakers to abandon the tactic.
  — Karoun Demirjian, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Our sculptor, Lizzy (Michelle Williams), would like nothing more than to toil in her studio in knitted-brow concentration.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024