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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Escaping the dirt and sweaty toil of the farm was her goal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
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
For 77 minutes the United head coach watched his players toil.
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025
The results of McCartney’s unceasing post-Beatles toil are evinced by the stats.
From Salon • Nov. 3, 2025
It seemed a confirmation—we were in the wilderness now—and a gratifying, totally commensurate reward for a day of hard toil.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
