toil - use in sentences

Object

  • tear: To his new colleagues he could offer nothing but " blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
  • mass: Now, permit us to ask: Is the breaking of the A-RC the breaking of the union of the, toiling masses?
  • night: And Simon answered, " Master, we toiled all night and took nothing!
  • day: Man, dis thoo think we did deserve To toil awl day in livin ' tombs.
  • hour: Or the doctor toiling long hours, and not for money.

Adjective modifier

  • daily: The men make or repair the implements for their daily toil.

Adjective complement

  • hard: The farmer was amazed at how fast he worked and wished he could get the mazed yard boy to toil as hard.

Modifying Another Word

  • away: I'll just toil away with the default stuff.
  • hard: The pittance earned by some of these women is earned at the expense of more than only hard toil.
  • daily: In one such operation in Alang, India, alone, 40,000 persons toil daily under the most hazardous occupational conditions outside of warfare.
  • double: Extract 5 2 Witch Double, double toil and trouble: Fire, burn; and caldron bubble.
  • much: How much toil will a mother undergo about her own child?
  • long: Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • up: We then toiled up to the top to be rewarded by its panoramic view across London.

Preposition: in

  • heat: He toils in the searing heat, breaking rocks into gravel.
  • field: In west Java workers toil in the onion fields under armed police guard.

Preposition: of

  • life: The toils of life I now could undertake, no matter how this planet Earth might quake.
  • day: The two or three 5-minute journeys for water are, after the toil of the day, no real further hardship.

Preposition: under

  • sun: What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun.

Preposition: for

  • year: The Monks toiled away for many years to create these great tomes what would now be created in days by modern technology.

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