Explore Toil through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like labor or labour. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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.
Using Toil
- The main meaning on this page is: Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature. | Trouble, strife. | A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.
- Useful related words include: labor, labour, work, moil.
- In the example corpus, toil often appears in combinations such as: toil and, the toil, to toil.
Context around Toil
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 1 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Toil
- In this selection, "toil" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, daily, penance, double, unseen, hard and won stand out and add context to how "toil" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after the toil of some and all the toil. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "toil" sits close to words such as achievers, acton and aether, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with toil
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble. (10 words)
There had to be some fruit for all the toil. (10 words)
You understand the core reason why you toil—to help make something better. (13 words)
After months of quiet toil, the governor outlines his spending priorities for the year each January and lobbies members of the House and Senate on some of the finer points of his recommendations in a policy-laden State of the State address. (42 words)
More permanent fixes, like adequate legal for workers who toil in the smoke and air purification for all homes, are still needed, said Hajat — and, of course, tackling the climate crisis by burning fewer fossil fuels. (36 words)
Livingstone made it a hat-trick of high catches with his best of the lot, rewarding Southee's toil when he ran backwards and judged well a swirling aerial ball from Max Holden. (33 words)
Recently, I found myself cast back in time to a place of honest toil and hard labour and you know what? (21 words)
Toil as penance, toil for the grace of God and maybe, just maybe, you will be saved! (17 words)
I walked back home later that day flushed not just with the toil of walking, but with the joys of friendship, and fellowship with nature and God! (27 words)
Example sentences (20)
Toil as penance, toil for the grace of God and maybe, just maybe, you will be saved!
According to Tilly, her cancer diagnosis not only affected her own life, but took its toil on her own family.
But Ford pushed workers to toil for a 9-to-5 work day, when the heat could reach 106 degrees with 100 percent humidity.
Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.
It must not only be important for the creation of a friendly and caring image to tourists, but fundamentally, to Guyanese who daily toil and make sacrifices here to pay requisite fares.
Mansfield Town manager Nigel Clough watches his tired side toil against Bradford City on Saturday.
More permanent fixes, like adequate legal for workers who toil in the smoke and air purification for all homes, are still needed, said Hajat — and, of course, tackling the climate crisis by burning fewer fossil fuels.
The CD in a statement signed by its National Secretary, Oluremi Lawson, saluted Nigerian workers in various sectors, especially those workers, who too often toil unseen.
The Eagles bowlers continued to toil hard to get wickets but were not helped by some sloppy fielding errors and five dropped catches.
There had to be some fruit for all the toil.
The Socialists who ran it didn’t think that workers needed training, or saving: rather, they hoped to supplement their “toil-won knowledge” so that they could change the world.
When the Trinity test comes at Los Alamos after the toil of some 4,000 people and the expense of $2 billion, there’s a palpable, shuddering sense of history changing inexorably.
You understand the core reason why you toil—to help make something better.
After months of quiet toil, the governor outlines his spending priorities for the year each January and lobbies members of the House and Senate on some of the finer points of his recommendations in a policy-laden State of the State address.
I walked back home later that day flushed not just with the toil of walking, but with the joys of friendship, and fellowship with nature and God!
Livingstone made it a hat-trick of high catches with his best of the lot, rewarding Southee's toil when he ran backwards and judged well a swirling aerial ball from Max Holden.
Recently, I found myself cast back in time to a place of honest toil and hard labour and you know what?
While Nigerians devise different coping mechanisms as they continue to toil in untold hardship, we were told again that banks should butcher our monies whenever we make electronic transactions (as Cybersecurity Levy).
But Fujimoto says he didn’t want to paint an entirely bleak picture, interspersing the film with heartwarming scenes that showed the women taking a respite from their daily toil.
But I am also a product of the toil and troubles my younger self endured.
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×