toil away
Example Sentences
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One descendant of our last common ancestor went on to engulf a photosynthetic bacterium, which would then toil away harnessing the power of the sun to fuel this progenitor of all plants.
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025
The pigs in Animal Farm start to act more and more like humans - living it up in the old farmer's house, while the rest of the animals toil away, often cold, hungry and over-worked.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2023
The director Martin Bourboulon intermittently takes us to the construction site, where men toil away, the metal structure gets progressively taller and Gustave pores over architectural blueprints with a furrowed brow.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022
Researchers often toil away for years in a lab without any promise that their research will result in anything meaningful for society.
From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2021
We toil away for a couple hours in the heat, sweating and even finding moments to laugh.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
