Synonym: labor, work. Antonym: rest. Similar words: toilet, toiletry, toilsome, eau de toilette, burn the midnight oil, stoic, patois, abattoir. Meaning: [tɔɪl] n. productive work (especially physical work done for wages). v. work hard.
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31 At least not if their gnarled hands, betokening lifetimes of hard toil, are a guide.
32 In jazz, sidemen often toil in the shadows, except in circles where obscurity is a selling point.
33 Displaced from power, he had to toil in a humble farmhouse outside Florence.
34 Such toil could easily be made unnecessary if a little social effort and investment could be applied.
35 Mortal pain and toil have yielded before the promise of redemption in Revelations.
36 After four carefree years, one enters the Company, where the daily round of obedient toil begins again.
37 A large mirror above the basin revealed to Ludens at intervals the progress of his toil.
38 People must turn up at the proverbial factory gates fresh[sentencedict.com], fit and ready to toil.
39 Successful people are not born. They are made of toil, sweat, perseverance, tenacity and iron will. Dr Roopleen
40 In other words, three generations might take a family from hard toil through private education to gilt-edged respectability.
41 But before the advent of data-processing capacity, the actual analyses would have taken man-years of clerical toil to complete.
42 He was destined to plod the path of toil.
43 The severest toil was child's play compared with this.
44 Congolese lawyers toil as waiters and chefs.
45 Why then toil and strive as the faithless do?
46 Tireless servants willing to toil at jobs we don't want to do or are unable to do, they can clean our homes, mow our lawns, and perform many other household tasks.
47 Her sister carried with her most of the grimness of shift and toil.
48 It has been an apothegm these five thousand years, that toil sweetens the bread it earns.
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49 They find jobs as live-in housemaids and toil at farms and factories.
50 I shall have to toil and moil all my days, with only little bits of fun now and then, and get old and ugly and sour, because I'm poor and can't enjoy my life as other girls do.
51 In 1930 John Maynard Keynes imagined that richer societies would become more leisured ones, liberated from toil to enjoy the finer things in life.
52 With much bodily toil and mental travail he wrote the decree upon half a sheet of foolscap and then copy it upon the other.
53 I shall have to toil and moil all my days.
54 The toil and resources of the poorer nations pay for the prosperity of the affluent peoples.
55 There are men who toil at extracting gold, he toiled at the extraction of pity.
56 I hold that the more arid and unreclaimed the soil where the Christian labourer's task of tillage is appointed him- the scantier the meed his toil brings- the higher the honour.
57 Suspend scraper can auto - balance squeegee pressure, prolong the life of scraper and steel toil, ensure to print.
58 Baby - linen - for babies then wore robes of state - afforded another possibility of toil and emolument.
59 Why toil away in the office like a chump when today's technology means you can bunk off with impunity ?
60 They spent months of toil on the water conservancy project.
More similar words: toilet, toiletry, toilsome, eau de toilette, burn the midnight oil, stoic, patois, abattoir, tortoise, oil, repertoire, foil, soil, boil, spoil, recoil, turmoil, boil down, broiler, embroil, sesame oil, embroiled, cooking oil, shop-soiled, add insult to injury, boiling water.