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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Most toil on the building sites of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia or in hotels and factories there, while others work in India and Malaysia.
From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026
The results of McCartney’s unceasing post-Beatles toil are evinced by the stats.
From Salon • Nov. 3, 2025
Even today, postdoctorates toil at universities doing biotech research before being hired by drug companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025
The 10 staffers who run the operation toil on minimalist sets in Phoenix and Tampa, Fla., which helps keep the service profitable.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025
They toil not— “Denham's—” Consider the lilies of the field, shut up, shut up.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
