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Meanings of toiling in English

Doing arduous or unpleasant work.

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        Usage of toiling in English
        1
        He has spent four years toiling on his answer to those questions.
        The Guardian
        2
        Thousands of workers are toiling around the clock to repair the damage.
        Reuters
        3
        In the movies, astronauts are not toiling over Russian vocabulary work sheets.
        An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
        4
        But the troop in front of him was toiling under heavy burdens.
        The Princess and the Goblin
        5
        I'll make a pittance each year toiling under some other ruthless employer.
        The notorious scoundrel
        6
        The pole swung round with the toiling men-neared him on the ruin.
        At a Winter's Fire
        7
        The struggle never ceases; some muscle is always toiling, some nerve straining.
        The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
        8
        There were men toiling and spending their gain in gambling and rioting.
        Woman on the American Frontier / A Valuable and Authentic Histor...
        9
        To the toiling Cossacks the war has only brought ruin and death.
        Ten Days That Shook the World
        10
        We bent our backs to the task of toiling up the hillsides.
        Tell England / A Study in a Generation
        11
        Step by step they scale the eminences, toiling through the heavenly atmosphere.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 / A Magazi...
        12
        Jack could see figures toiling both upward and downward upon this road.
        The talisman
        13
        But a heavy toiling of steps up the stairs checked her words.
        Red-Robin
        14
        He is off pleasuring, and the other is here planning and toiling.
        Floyd Grandon's Honor
        15
        He had no idea that millions of toiling, striving human creatures existed.
        The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
        16
        Hundreds of men toiling and sweating over stiff canvas and stiffer ropes.
        Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater; Or, The Most Dangerous Performanc...
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