toil
Usage
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.
Example Sentences
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More details are tol be released at a later date.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2022
On Jan. 19, he was tol be remembered at a 2 p.m. service in Apollo First Lutheran Church.
From Washington Times • Jan. 18, 2020
One witness tol the Los Angeles Times that Kaye’s husband began to do CPR on an injured person and was overcome when he realized it was his wife.
From Fox News • Apr. 28, 2019
Deng jokingly tol reporters at the morning shootaround that he hasn't figured out how to change his home team on the NBA app on his phone so he's tired of getting updates on Noah's double-doubles.
From Chicago Tribune • Jan. 22, 2014
“Now, Mr. Leland, sing us that German song you’re always so jolly with—lodle yodle tol de rol de rol!”
From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey
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