toiling

Example Sentences

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He has been toiling in the game since the George W. Bush administration without anything close to this kind of success.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The Uruguay midfielder was not Manchester United's worst player, but he lacks the ability to lift a toiling team.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

It brought the bootstrapping fantasy of this rising family, a few generations removed from the toiling class, into Britain’s living rooms with the right blend of serious theatricality and soapy splendor.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Among her many years toiling in the fields, she cut and packed lettuce, picked cherries and planted watermelon seeds across the Central Valley.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

Believing that it was morally indefensible to waste any part of an animal that has been shot for food, McCandless spent six days toiling to preserve what he had killed before it spoiled.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer