Showing Results for "toiled"

toiled

VERB

work hard

Synonyms

STRONGEST

strive sweat

STRONG

drive drudge grind labor moil plod plug slave strain struggle tug work

WEAK

knock oneself out peg away push oneself work like a dog

Antonyms

STRONG

be lazy idle laze relax rest

WEAK

neglect

Example Sentences

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Lyndon Dykes started against Japan and toiled hard without much joy.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Around 7,000 workers toiled on the four-year project, overseen by a division of Mobil Oil, an in-house Aramco newsletter reported in 1983, two years after the first shipment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

British officials have toiled behind the scenes to lobby the Trump administration on Ukraine and Greenland.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

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 • Feb. 4, 2026

Wizards speak truth, and it was true that all the mastery of Names that Ged had toiled to win that year was the mere start of what he must go on learning all his life.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin