travail

Example Sentences

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But the movie also sits in with some middle-aged road workers and their travails.

From New York Times

In sold-out engagements in London and New York, audiences were physically enveloped in the myriad travails and tragedies of migrants from across the globe, desperate to reach Britain from a refugee camp in France.

From Washington Post

But if East Palestine felt ignored in the immediate aftermath of the derailment, its travails are now playing out on a vast national tableau of partisan politics.

From New York Times

She also expressed some concern that Haiti’s travails could soon become a footnote in the litany of current international disasters, most of them man-made.

From New York Times

“Despite the country’s focus on its worsening economic travails, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea continued to maintain and develop its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes,” the sanctions monitors concluded.

From Reuters