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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Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come.
From Literature
Disney’s board at the time wanted to give Iger, a longtime ABC executive who had toiled years in the shadow of former Chief Executive Michael Eisner, a shot.
From Los Angeles Times
In the interim, he entered the 2023 NBA Draft, signed a two-way deal with the San Antonio Spurs and spent three seasons toiling away in the G League.
“He had little choice but to toil ahead.”
From Los Angeles Times
The Scot had lost his previous seven matches against the Englishman and appeared to be toiling as he made a series of errors in the opening three frames.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
