travail
Example Sentences
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Cooper Union leaders have said the Chrysler Building's travails will not result in higher tuition rates or fewer scholarships.
From Barron's
The visual gags that are part of Jake’s physical travails not only elicit chuckles but add a neurodivergent undertone to the story.
From Salon
But then I’ve never understood escapism in the context of workplace comedy, romantic travails or contemporary political drama.
It follows the fortunes and travails of the Oppermann family in Berlin as upper-class Jews during the rise of National Socialism, a phenomenon they blithely dismiss until that’s no longer possible.
Yet Summers’s travails are also uniquely his own.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
