[
US
/ˈtɔɪɫ/
]
[ UK /tˈɔɪl/ ]
[ UK /tˈɔɪl/ ]
VERB
-
work hard
Lexicographers drudge all day long
She was digging away at her math homework
NOUN
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productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
his labor did not require a great deal of skill
How To Use toil In A Sentence
- Sewage overflowed into wash basins at West Middlesex Hospital following a blockage in one of the toilets.
- Oh, it's fine for her to waste food on a level I can only describe as sinful but God forbid we should be wasting light bulbs or toilet paper.
- I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others. What to Do?
- What about the other evidence about him in the toilet pacing backwards and forwards, with expletives and asking everyone who came in for a line of drugs - speed?
- Tiny figures huddled in sweatshops, toiling in unspeakable conditions.
- The typical sewage ejector toilet consists of a pedestal made of polyethylene, which acts as a base for mounting the toilet.
- Mr Popple peered over the side of the toilet, his right hand leaning on the toilet-seat.
- What a suasory example it is for those, who through some freak of fortune, being enabled to shake off the dust of honest toil and industry, are very ready to look downward with contempt upon the rank they have just left. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
- I didn't answer her, just kept scrubbing the toilet clean while Colleen trickled Visine into her eyes.
- Dozens of families lived in each building, shared toilets with neighbors and bathed in the kitchens.