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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The performers union, SAG-AFTRA, hosted two Halloween pickets on Tuesday, “Double, Double, Toil and Trouble!” at Netflix and “Spooky Solidarity Day” at the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2023
Against the drumbeat of the climate crisis, the inaugural show titled “Boil, Toil + Trouble,” at a pop-up space in Miami’s Design District, looks at water in all its forms.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022
Back then, of course, if you didn’t get into the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute, you could always settle for the North Carolina Crushing Toil Academy, which now, of course, is known as UNC.
From Time • May 18, 2015
Toil as he may, the steelworker’s chances of advancement seemed vanishingly small.
From Slate • Sep. 29, 2014
I am so weary of toils and of tears, Toil without recompense—tears all in vain— Take them, and give me my childhood again.
From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by Edmonds, S. Emma E.
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