toiling

Example Sentences

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Above the public library’s checkout desk is a mural of shirtless laborers toiling among smokestacks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

It brought the bootstrapping fantasy of this rising family, a few generations removed from the toiling class, into Britain’s living rooms with the right blend of serious theatricality and soapy splendor.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Among her many years toiling in the fields, she cut and packed lettuce, picked cherries and planted watermelon seeds across the Central Valley.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

Or they could be further toiling to defend their title and staring at a trophyless campaign.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

We went, the three of us, to the quarry, joining the bedraggled groups of workers toiling along the winding, muddy road.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya