We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of toil in English
Synonyms
Examples for "dig"
Examples for "dig"
1
Rob didn't know what to expect at the dig, following the 'accident'.
2
For example, we'll need to dig into this whole Kahverengi International matter.
3
Here it is; you may follow us while we dig it out:
4
Some of the survivors were compelled to dig graves for the seven.
5
I dig down looking for things that existed a long time ago.'
1
They grind their points; they stir poison; they swarm in the streets.
2
The 'two days before payday' grind would be easier, if not gone.
3
The walnut-crusher shifts gear into a final grind-into-mush setting: Capital Laundry Services?
4
Gottta love a man who knows the value of a good grind.
5
The mills of the gods in the Interior Department grind very slowly.
1
You know, in case TMZ is having a fag break or something.
2
It is late September at the fag end of the tourism season.
3
They said that the whole world would know he was a fag.
4
Albert dropped his fag and stood on it on the way in.
5
They smoked fag after fag, lighting the new ones on the butts.
1
Many consider it drudge work beneath ladies & gentlemen of their stature.
2
The drudge had probably been affianced oftener than any woman in Bursley.
3
A poem on the miseries of a literary drudge begins thus promisingly:-
4
Today with rural electrification the mountain woman ceases to be a drudge.
5
They think only of the tasks of a drudge or a char-boy.
1
Each morn that dawns I wake in travail and in woe, And
2
The world is in travail, and its agitation waxeth day by day.
3
The travail is already begun in you that will form the Christ.'
4
He eliminates it with stern effort and much travail of the spirit.
5
In such travail of soul, he who suffers through suffering is satisfied.
1
They tumbled and rolled to disappear into the churning moil of waters.
2
And were it so, who would strive and moil in this world?
3
Well, to be plain, out of the Stewart cark and moil!
4
Up from the stoop and cramp of daily moil-
5
And why should men toil and moil when they had been the masters of the world?
Usage of toil in English
1
The common life-thelife of people-thedaily toil-the pangs and the struggles.
2
And then the toil and self-denial for the stocking and the tree
3
It had been completed only thirty years ago, after generations of toil.
4
The lily may grow; the man must fret and toil and spin.
5
To some breath control seems second nature; others must toil for it.
6
It is without grief, and free from the toil involved in Pravritti.
7
I call upon independent men and women, free of families and toil.
8
I can speak only of what I observe in my daily toil.
9
By means of toil man shall scale the height; Who to fame
10
Accordingly in this field have the great poets and literatuses signally toil'd.
11
All the true Initiates have recognized the usefulness of toil and sorrow.
12
Developers placed little protection due to the physical toil of hand drilling.
13
Another is reared in poverty and has to toil and suffer privation.
14
I see the boy can never appreciate the toil of our years.
15
And so my days passed by in a dull blur of toil.
16
They are each set in a world of toil, threat and barbarity.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Toil through the time
Toil across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Rare