How To Use Toiling In A Sentence
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Tiny figures huddled in sweatshops, toiling in unspeakable conditions.
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toiling coal miners in the black deeps
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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.
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Look at those golfers toiling away to make pars!
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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?
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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.
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He misplaced a pass at the very start and was in a foul mood with himself throughout a toiling performance.
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But at least the Ox was toiling in the field.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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.
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He found a dozen people toiling amid choking dust.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Look at those golfers toiling away to make pars!
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyhow there were the peasants, men and women, boys and young maidens, toiling and swinking; some hoeing between the vine-rows, some bearing baskets of dung up the steep slopes, some in one way, some in another, labouring for the fruit they should never eat, and the wine they should never drink.
A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson
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Here too in one of these small hamlets through which we passed Ruskin with a gang of his pupils in flannels started roadmaking, and for days and weeks were to be seen at their arduous task of digging and excavation, toiling and moiling with pick, spade, and barrow, while
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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I've been toiling away at this essay all weekend.
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The granite rocks of the glacial valley contain quartz veins of silver, lead and zinc and at one time there were over 2 000 miners toiling there.
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There's a lot more to coppicing than woodsmen toiling away in the forest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Australia's patchy 2-1 victory over Thailand last week was unconvincing but in Dammam two goals by Josh Kennedy and a penalty from Luke Wilkshire lifted the Socceroos to the top of Group D.By contrast, Japan's away-match experience was all about toiling for a draw.
Lionel Messi inspires Argentina to victory over Nigeria in Dhaka
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The forest, through which we were slowly toiling, daily became more dense, and we were kept almost constantly at work with the axe; there was much more leafiness in the trees here than farther south.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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In one place cooks were toiling to roast huge oxen, and fat sheep; in another, hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers.
Ivanhoe
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The film is a toiling labour of love.
Times, Sunday Times
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Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing onward through life we go.
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He spent two years in the post, toiling to save Louis XVI, sheltering aristocrats from the Paris mob, and working hard to protect American merchant vessels against French privateers.
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Those toiling under the vultures mutter to one another in Warao, an indigenous language spoken in the nearby delta where the Orinoco, one of the world's mightiest rivers, meets the Atlantic.
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These manual laborers, long accustomed to toiling in the fields, are good workers.
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This epitome of middle-class decency has been toiling with 'a kleptocratic elite above him, the illiterate majority below'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The film is a toiling labour of love.
Times, Sunday Times
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Against their huge bulk, the pilgrims and mule toiling up the almost invisible pathways are tiny and humbled.
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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.
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He was sparingly fed upon weevilled biscuit and vile messes of tallowy rice, and to drink he was given luke-warm water that was often stale, saving that sometimes when the spell of rowing was more than usually protracted the boatswains would thrust lumps of bread sodden in wine into the mouths of the toiling slaves to sustain them.
The Sea-Hawk
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I've been toiling away at this essay all weekend.
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And as for Miller, the slight, wiry frame is the same, the lank hair slightly longer, but there still seems enough about his game to make a difference to a club that has been toiling.
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When the commander of the military base at which he's toiling got wind of this, the elder Banner got the sack.
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His days toiling in the fields were done, now he sat around with his peers playing cards, and talking about ‘the good auld days’.
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Filming is nearing completion in Houston, where cast and crew have been toiling since November.
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Hundreds eke out a living, toiling hard throughout the night.
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They are toiling away, working hard, and looking for the green light from the Minister of Finance.
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Not that toiling as a bookseller is anyway to get rich quick.
Audio Interview with Antiquarian Book Dealer Robert Rulon-Miller, by Nigel Beale
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Great armies of them are toiling now at the building of Ardis, housed in wretched barracks where family life cannot exist, and where decency is displaced by dull bestiality.
Chapter 21: The Roaring Abysmal Beast
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After several years toiling in economic and monetary research at the University of Siegen, Germany, where he earned his doctorate, Mr. Weber caught his first big break when he joined the economics faculty at the University of Bonn, one of Germany's top schools, in 1994.
Ex-German Central Banker's Unconventional Career Path
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Peering out the window, Donovan made mental notes of the activity he saw along the way: convoys of trucks hauling cedar logs from the interior, workers by the hundreds toiling in muddy rice fields wearing only loincloths, small carts on the road drawn by women, even children, delivery wagons attached to rubber-tired bicycles, young Japanese men in kimonos playing baseball in makeshift fields.
Wild Bill Donovan
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Yet for whom do these toiling millions work?
Times, Sunday Times
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Gandhi said that he was working for winning Swaraj ‘for those toiling and unemployed millions who do not get even a square meal a day and have to scratch along with a piece of stale roti and a pinch of salt.’
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Something happened today that will really affect Christmas for New Zealanders who are out there, working hard and toiling away: interest rates went up.
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Pioneer women were veritable amazons performing heavy house-hold chores in addition to toiling in the fields beside their menfolk.
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Producers used to be the overlooked bunch of gearheads toiling away at guitar levels and fade-outs and other such periphery, while the songwriter did the actual creative work and the band did the technical stuff.
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He was working ‘for those toiling and unemployed millions who do not get even a square meal a day and have to scratch along with a piece of stale roti and a pinch of salt.’
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Against their huge bulk, the pilgrims and mule toiling up the almost invisible pathways are tiny and humbled.
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The Dhobi's donkey is a familiar sight as one meets him on the road still toiling as in the time of Issachar between two bundles of clothes each larger than himself, and he has also become proverbial, '_Dhobi ka gadha neh ghar ka neh ghat ka_,'
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
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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.
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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.
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For decades the industry has enjoyed its anonymity, toiling away deep in the machine room of the global economy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here I am toiling away in relative obscurity in the land that time forgot, and you're bitching that you haven't got the time to write an article which would be printed in the New York Times?
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While toiling as a St. Louis washerwoman during the 1890s, she began to go bald.
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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.
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Reading on, she could picture the scene -- the two old men toiling with pathetic earnestness over the task of preparing that letter; here and there, the words only partially deleted by lines run across them, were evidences that in his flustration under the master's vitriolic complaints, old Dick had confused comment with dictated matter -- and had included comment in his unthinking haste to get everything down.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
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I know that, when I was there, the view from the first rise back of the grounds, looking down upon that long flat where men by thousands were toiling, and building after building was rising, made a picture sufficiently inspiring to warm the enthusiasm and brisken the imagination of any man, be he alien or native.
Roughing it De Luxe
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In the mid-1950s, Kim began a prolific career as a writer-director toiling in the netherworld of Korean commercial cinema.
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He rose up and departed, without counsel of any, trusting only in God and his own strength; he bore with him neither bag nor baggage, scrip nor scrippage -- not even a change of raiment; but with a handful of fruit and the humble provision which his good mother had furnished for the harvest-field, he set forth; day and night he journeyed on the truck he knew his friend had taken to that far country, toiling in the fields to secure food and lodging for the night, and some scant aids to carry him from place to place.
Chanticleer A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family
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He is a third-rate lawyer toiling away at a fourth-rate firm.
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Even as she looked, Chilcoot was wrapped in rolling mist and whirling cloud, and a storm of sleet and wind roared down upon the toiling pigmies.
CHAPTER 3
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While the rest of us were toiling in Pattaya, a small group sought refuge in the mountain retreat of Soi Dao.
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And then, he thought, it would be simply delightful to sit in a room in a quiet farmhouse and hear the gentle moaning of calves and the cheerful cackle of exultant hens, as he wrote items in a book about eggs and things, and drink buttermilk, instead of toiling in the ill-smelling trade-room on board the _Palestine_, bottling off Queensland rum and opening tierces of negrohead tobacco, while the brig was either standing on her head or rolling her soul out, and Packenham the skipper was using shocking language to everyone on deck.
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899
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The Carlow lads found themselves toiling fruitlessly against a well-organised Killoughternane outfit during the early exchanges.
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The toiling masses now seem to be composed mostly of noble armigers bearing double-barrelled names.
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He then tells of how "the poet in his hillside garden above the San Francisco Bay merged with the figure of Oedipus toiling up the wooded slope at Colonus, only to disappear in the blink of an eye.
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It was better, they said, to starve at home than underground, toiling in a hellish mineshaft.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are releasing this statement on proposed bundh on 31st of this month, called by landlords of malenaadu against our party and toiling people.
CPI(Maoist)Karnataka State Committee on Anti-people band organised by Landlords
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They were toiling at their experiment.
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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.
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Those toiling under the vultures mutter to one another in Warao, an indigenous language spoken in the nearby delta where the Orinoco, one of the world's mightiest rivers, meets the Atlantic.
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He stood above a toiling, heaving sea of greenish-black, briny waves slapping a shore far distant.
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These men of hard toiling lives and dull imagination were there to see women of a class and education superior to their own break the law and get "copped" for it, just like one of themselves.
King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
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Think of British inventors and you picture lone eccentrics toiling away in a shed at the bottom of the garden, seeking to make discoveries of genius.
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With all that physical toiling in the fresh air one could be forgiven for imagining farming was the ultimate in healthy occupations.
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I wanted to avoid them but unfortunately I couldn't get through the forest of waving placards displaying Mao, Obamma and a mural of Clinton with waving red banners and toiling farmers in the background, but with her face which didn't flatter her much since it looked like she was prairie-dogging it (trying to suck a turd back in) (National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Special Edition)).
Bison survival blog
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These perks - relative job security, respect on the job, reward for a job well done, the conventional "bennies" - these are all things that make the life of someone in the professional managerial upper middle class significantly different from someone toiling away in a job that is paid significantly less, that has no bennies, and in a small ass company that has no commitment to anything other than exploiting the hell out of your labor, where the idea that you might get, automatically, a raise every year is like having the idea that Christmas is to be celebrated in August.
Bitch | Lab
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For decades a foreign proletariat toiling in dingy factories from Vladivostok to Karl-Marx-Stadt helped bankroll Pyongyang's transformation into a proud monument to ethnic self-reliance, so that someday a Bruce Cumings could boast that it is anything but the ugly Communist capital one might expect.
Mother of All Mothers
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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.
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The toiling masses are disenchanted in their national illusions; they are discouraged, discontented, angry.
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Just in case you still think Jones is just some no-name boffin toiling pitifully in academia's climate change coal mines, one file in the exposed CRU records reveals that he has collected 13.7 million in grants since 1990.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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Eight years of toiling for the attentions of some noble benefactress and eight years of writing stories.
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Most of the early Church's toiling over Christ's humanity took place in terms less extreme than those of the Gnostics or of Tertullian.
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But at least the Ox was toiling in the field.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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After that I could never see the point of toiling up a steep incline in preference to riding comfortably on a ski-lift!
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Nay, the owner himself will abandon his new grubbed clearage so soon as, by his cultivation, he has rendered it commodious for a less enterprising husbandman; once more he presses into the wilderness; again makes space for himself in the forests; in recompense of that first toiling a double and treble space; on which also, it may be, he thinks not to continue.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
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Yet for whom do these toiling millions work?
Times, Sunday Times
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It recalls the cowled monk with his cross, and the soldier close following with his sword; the old mission-house, with its church and garrison beside it; the fierce savage lured from a roving life, and changed into a toiling _peon_, afterwards to revolt against a system of slavery that even religion failed to make endurable; the neophyte turning his hand against his priestly instructor, equally his oppressor; revolt followed by a deluge of blood, with ruinous devastation, until the walls of both _mission_ and military _cuartel_ are left tenantless, and the redskin has returned to his roving.
The Lone Ranche
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But nothing, and I mean nothing compares to the kind of pay raises that bureaucrats and politicians bestow on themselves. 2-3% inflationary increases are small potatoes for the “civil servants” toiling away on their meagre sextuple salaries.
2008 August 09 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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The statistics paint a picture of munchers and snackers toiling over crumb-infested keyboards, surrounded by a sea of empty potato-chip bags and unfurled candy-bar wrappers.
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For decades the industry has enjoyed its anonymity, toiling away deep in the machine room of the global economy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Far on the westering desert, beyond the valley, Pringle saw a white feather of smoke from a toiling train; beyond that a twisting gap in the blue of the westmost range.
The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On
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There are, in short, perfectionist reformers as well as religionists, who wait to see the salvation which it is the task of humanity itself to work out, and who look down from a region of ineffable self-complacence on their dusty and toiling brethren who are resolutely doing whatsoever their hands find to do for the removal of the evils around them.
The Complete Works of Whittier
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How can the boring day-to-day life of toiling in the fields to return to a modest wife and toddler in rough-hewn country garments and a meal of soup and home-baked bread compare to a smoking, bob-haired minx in fancy lingerie.
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Be this as it may, this character in the comedy is called the "geometrician," and does his best to make himself unbearable to those who are toiling with pickaxe and shovel.
La mare au diable. English
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And so the dictatorship of the proletariat becomes the _dictatorship of a single person_, a super-boss and industrial autocrat: We must learn to combine the stormy, energetic breaking of all restraint on the part of the toiling masses _with iron discipline during work, with absolute submission to the will of one person, the Soviet director, during work_. [
Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy
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In his scenes we have the infinitude of soft silver beach, the rolling tumultuousness of a boundless sea, and twisted cedars mounted like toiling ships on the crests of undulating sand-hills.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873
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How many old labourers, old operatives, or miners are now left to recall the wretchedness of that toiling and starving childhood before the corn-tax was removed?
Essays in Rebellion
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I came to the conclusion that that was too much money for any old one-gallused farmer to lose after toiling through the hot sun and bad weather.
From Slavery to Wealth The Life of Scott Bond The Rewards of Honesty, Industry, Economy and Perseverance.
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He even used "going forward," a term to shrivel the heart of anyone toiling at a corporation that values meaningless management-talk.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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The stroller toiling on his own account, "padding the hoof," as he called journeying on foot -- a small bundle under his arm, containing a few clothes and professional appliances -- wandered from place to place, stopping now at a fair, now at a tavern, now at a country-house, to deliver recitations and speeches, and to gain such reward for his labours as he might.
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
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England's cricketers have been toiling in the 100-degree heat over the past week.
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In one room sat the computers -- that is, a bevy of mathematically gifted women toiling away on regression analysis with sharp pencils.
Michael Byers's ÂPercival's Planet, reviewed by Ron Charles
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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.
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Zi Gong saw a farmer toiling in a vegetable garden nearby road.
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For decades a foreign proletariat toiling in dingy factories from Vladivostok to Karl-Marx-Stadt helped bankroll Pyongyang's transformation into a proud monument to ethnic self-reliance, so that someday a Bruce Cumings could boast that it is anything but the ugly Communist capital one might expect.
Mother of All Mothers
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In coordination with or after failure of suasive means to deceive and calm down the aggrieved toiling masses, the exploiting classes can escalate the show and use of brute force from the level of private army and civilian armed gangs through the local police to any of the major services of the Armed Forces of the
Naxalite Maoist India
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In January, 1679, a file of burdened men, some thirty in number, toiling slowly on their way over the snowy plains and "through the gloomy forests of spruce and naked oak trees," the priest accompanying with his altar lashed to his back, reached a favorable spot beside calm water several miles above the cataract: the site is identified as situate a little way above the mouth of Cayuga Creek, just outside the village of La Salle, in the State of New York.
The French in the Heart of America
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How should he draw back — this creature, all sensation, all enjoyment of life, tired of the monotony of existence in a country town, weary of poverty, harassed by enforced continence, impatient of the claustral life of the Rue de Cluny, of toiling without reward?
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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Some of the party workers who had been toiling all day, and were still expecting a victory, retired to a nearby pub to enjoy themselves.
