toil

IPA: tˈɔɪɫ

noun

  • Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
  • Trouble, strife.
  • (usually in the plural) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.
  • (UK, employment) Initialism of time off in lieu (of monetary compensation for overtime).

verb

  • (intransitive) To labour; work.
  • (intransitive) To struggle.
  • (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
  • (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.
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Examples of "toil" in Sentences

  • A curse was laid upon them, it would seem, and they must work it out in toil and hardship.
  • The best of nights and days of toil is that there comes a twilight in which fatigued eyes see clear.
  • Work songs of all kinds sustained the rhythm of the hand in toil, while the mind escaped on the wing of romance.
  • BUT THEN, it happens, we make the cheesecake – all the ingredients come together and in the midst of toil is perfection!
  • You know what that sum really means in toil and effort and work; work, here, there and everywhere on every farm right over this great country.
  • Therefore in addition to adequate wages, Labor demands a fair share of the profits resulting from the industry, its toil is aiding to develop.
  • The fact is, the peon of Mexico, so far as liberty and a share in the happiness produced by his toil is concerned, is as much a slave as he ever was.
  • Some are rich they have money enough for a thousand men all to themselves — and they live without occupation; others bow their backs in toil all their life, and they haven't a penny.
  • At the same time, critics, perhaps especially critics who are not themselves "creative" writers, ought more often to acknowledge that this toil is only compounded in the labor performed by poets and novelists.

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