moil

[ UK /mˈɔ‍ɪl/ ]
VERB
  1. work hard
    Lexicographers drudge all day long
    She was digging away at her math homework
  2. be agitated
    the sea was churning in the storm
  3. moisten or soil
    Her tears moiled the letter
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How To Use moil In A Sentence

  • The presidential election will be conducted against a backdrop of seismic political and economic turmoil. Times, Sunday Times
  • At first sight, the economy hit the August turmoil in fine fettle.
  • With the current turmoil in the US economy one wonders if people will be quite so free with their money on luxuries this year.
  • His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today.
  • Was this the beginning of a turnaround for a career that has stalled on the back of personal turmoil and a technique that has deserted him? Times, Sunday Times
  • Soon, however, social turmoil swept the country, weakening the monarch's effectiveness as an arbiter of political disputes, and exacerbating communal violence among Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa, the three major ethnic communities.
  • Gold futures turned positive Wednesday, bucking the second day of sliding commodities, as it reassumed its safe-haven identity amid turmoil in Europe. Gold Swoons, Then Rises on Risk Worries
  • The voters may see the implications of global turmoil through a glass darkly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Voters would be deeply unimpressed by leadership turmoil during an economic crisis. Times, Sunday Times
  • But if restrictions off the field of play are irksome it's nothing compared to the turmoil he's going through on the pitch these days.
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