Want to use Toil correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like labor or labour.
Toil in a sentence
Related words
Toil meaning
- Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
- Trouble, strife.
- A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.
Example sentences (20)
Loretta and Sam Adderson are in their mid-70s and may now lose the farm they've nourished with their toil and dreams.
Police Scotland has spent almost £2 million buying back time off in lieu (TOIL) from police officers for 2018/19.
Agriculture and fishing were the best developed resources, but only through years of painstaking investment and toil.
Plowing and harvesting were backbreaking toil, but the peasant enjoyed anywhere from eight weeks to half the year off.
His first as prime minister was the famous, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat " speech.
But Ford pushed workers to toil for a 9-to-5 work day, when the heat could reach 106 degrees with 100 percent humidity.
According to Tilly, her cancer diagnosis not only affected her own life, but took its toil on her own family.
Following this tragedy, the mother was forced to toil day and night to sew clothes in order to raise her son.
By faith, agriculture is sustained; for a man does not endure the toil involved unless he believes he will reap a harvest.
Recently, I found myself cast back in time to a place of honest toil and hard labour and you know what?
This is as true of towering human beings as of those of us who toil in the muck of eventual obscurity.
Seeing a cardinal's coach toil up the steep Trasteverine Hill, the monks came to the door to greet it.
Then 18-years-old, she accused her parents of watching her toil to pay her secondary school fees despite having sources of income.
Hard-fought victories are the most satisfying and England had to toil for 137.4 overs for this one.
God blesses the land with abundant rain and sun and they toil to feed their families and the world.
Mansfield Town manager Nigel Clough watches his tired side toil against Bradford City on Saturday.
In addition, he "stresses Moses' willingness to undergo toil and his careful avoidance of bribery.
The Eagles bowlers continued to toil hard to get wickets but were not helped by some sloppy fielding errors and five dropped catches.
I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these states.
In his respond, Anebi pledged to ceaselessly work and toil for Nigeria, while also upholding in high esteem the value of human lives.
Common combinations with toil
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- toil and 13×
- the toil 13×
- to toil 11×
- toil for 9×
- toil in 9×
- toil of 5×
- and toil 5×
- who toil 4×
- toil to 4×
- toil on 2×
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