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
Researchers toil away for decades at obscure limits of human knowledge, collecting and analyzing data, refining theories, writing, debating, and advancing our understanding of the world in tiny increments.
From Scientific American • Mar. 23, 2022
When parents toil away at home, small children also get the message that life doesn’t revolve around them, and that work comes before play.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2020
We toil away for a couple hours in the heat, sweating and even finding moments to laugh.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
