toiler

Example Sentences

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Not a colleague, note, far less a fellow toiler among the philistines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

At grocer Fairway Market in Manhattan’s Upper West Side neighborhood, shelves normally full of pasta, Oreo cookies, pasta sauce, crackers and toiler paper were depleted on Thursday evening.

From Reuters • Mar. 13, 2020

A classic toiler is the scientist who works for years on a particular problem, contributing small advances that help to take the field forward.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2019

If she’d gotten the story right, it would have been a moment straight out of “42nd Street”: plucky behind-the-scenes toiler makes the big time!

From Salon • Jun. 29, 2015

The wind blew shrill, and shook the window, and the snow was heard beating against the panes; the clock went another quarter, but still the indefatigable toiler sewed on.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various