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toil

noun as in hard work

verb as in work hard

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Example Sentences

The reward for all that toil is something part liquid, part solid that has zero electrical resistance at room temperature—making it a superconductor.

For me, at least, suffering on the trail means that the pain and toil tend to crowd out space for convenience.

The Disc Embedding Theorem rewrites a proof completed in 1981 by Michael Freedman — about an infinite network of discs — after years of solitary toil on the California coast.

The best applications are often those made at the last minute, because applicants do not overthink their responses and toil over details they think need to be shoved into a question.

Yes, progress is being made, but it must be faster if the current toils of agency execs are anything to go by.

From Digiday

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

In the years 1914-18, women flooded into the workplace to take on the toil of men conscripted to fight.

But football is a game in which a moment of magic can undo an hour of toil.

These early British settlers soon established tobacco then sugar cane plantations and started importing workers to toil on them.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

He was rejoicing in the upheaval that permitted debts to be paid with a bludgeon and money to be made without toil.

Not too big for the fiery old heart that trouble and toil and hunger and loneliness had never quenched.

He was now evidently exhausted by toil, and dispirited by disappointment.

Thus it lightens the toil of the weary laborer plodding along the highway of life.

The comfortable yet humble apartments of the engraver were over the shop where he plied his daily toil.

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What are other ways to say toil?

Toil suggests wearying or exhausting labor: toil that breaks down the worker’s health. Drudgery suggests continuous, dreary, and dispiriting work, especially of a menial or servile kind: the drudgery of household tasks. Labor particularly denotes hard manual work: backbreaking labor; arduous labor. Work is the general word and may apply to exertion that is either easy or hard: fun work; heavy work.

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On this page you'll find 111 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to toil, such as: exertion, application, drudgery, effort, industry, and labor.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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