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UK
/tˈɔɪlɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈtɔɪɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɔɪɫɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
doing arduous or unpleasant work
drudging peasants
the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
toiling coal miners in the black deeps
How To Use toiling In A Sentence
- Tiny figures huddled in sweatshops, toiling in unspeakable conditions.
- toiling coal miners in the black deeps
- Having done some cycling in England as a teenager, I have admired the amateur cyclists I've seen toiling up those climbs and can appreciate the difficulty of the last segment of stage eight.
- Look at those golfers toiling away to make pars! Times, Sunday Times
- Becoming a good writer is a painful work and not every man is able to master it and more importantly, continue toiling in this impellent sphere. Goa Blog
- Few of the people we admire spent their lives toiling soundlessly as spokes in an all-consuming wheel. Wale Oyejide: Were You Hoping for a Miracle?
- It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of great whole of life dawn on you.
- He misplaced a pass at the very start and was in a foul mood with himself throughout a toiling performance.
- But at least the Ox was toiling in the field. Times, Sunday Times
- He spent a decade toiling away as frontman for under- appreciated alt-rock band the Czars before finally gaining traction as a solo artist with last year's Queen Of Denmark, a collaboration with the band Midlake that rather outshone their own lacklustre recent album. This week's new live music