noun
verb
definition
To labour; work.
definition
To struggle.
definition
To work (something); often with out.
definition
To weary through excessive labour.
Examples of toil in a Sentence
They frequently beguile their toil with carols.
You have profited by their toil to lead a profligate life.
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
They finally cleaned up the yard by ceaseless toil.
In 1826 he looked back to four years of eager toil.
By a happy lot, all persons travel to an end free of toil.
An illness brought on by toil and privation forced him to leave his work to others for nearly a year, but in August 1598 he returned to his field of labour, and in October of that year practically the whole country was Catholic again.
Ethically, Hercules symbolizes the attainment of glory and immortality by toil and suffering.
Painful toil shall be the lot of man; subjection and pangs that of woman.
Hence the world will last for six thousand years of toil and labour; then will come one thousand years of Sabbath rest for the people of God in the kingdom of the Messiah."
They will frequently refuse to work for a wage when they most stand in need of cash, and yet at the invitation of one who is their friend they will toil unremittingly without any thought of reward.
Forced labour was required to work them and the natives were driven to the toil.
Did with the aged hermit toil, With their own hands in daily moil, Hard laboring rude the barren soil.
In west Java workers toil in the onion fields under armed police guard.
In 1872 Airy conceived the idea of treating the lunar theory in a new way, and at the age of seventy-one he embarked on the prodigious toil which this scheme entailed.
Bearing this in mind the reader will understand that so much of the natural history of the honey-bee as is necessary for elucidating the practical part of our subject may be comprised in (I) the life of the insect, (2) its mission in life, and (3) utilizing to the utmost the brief period during which it can labour before being worn out with toil.
The men make or repair the implements for their daily toil.
The whole arrangements and character of the building bespeak the rich and powerful feudal lord, not the humble father of a body of hard-working brethren, bound by vows to a life of poverty and self-denying toil.
It was still necessary for the man who had been formerly saluted by the highest authority as dictator of the English language to supply his wants by constant toil.
Indeed to everything that concerned the interests of France Colbert devoted unsparing thought and toil.
He was sparing in his food and simple in his dress; he took but little sleep, and was capable of extraordinary efforts of intellectual toil.
On his return to Paris in 1754 Lacaille was distressed to find himself an object of public attention; he withdrew to Mazarin college, and there died, on the 21st of March 1762, of an attack of gout aggravated by unremitting toil.
The two years and a half thus spent in Central Africa was a time of incessant toil.
For Vermeulen, the race weekend was a perfect homecoming, and reward for a weekend of toil.
From then on his life was to be one of mounting debts and almost incessant toil.
Heart break and toil and suffering gone, The boys beneath them slumber on.
To his new colleagues he could offer nothing but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
The farmer was amazed at how fast he worked and wished he could get the mazed yard boy to toil as hard.
The pittance earned by some of these women is earned at the expense of more than only hard toil.
Along the road, in strong contrast to the guardian pines, toil a few tired wayfarers; and the story is told.
The twelve years covering the publication of the first of Comte's two elaborate works were years of indefatigable toil, and they were the only portion of his life in which he enjoyed a certain measure, and that a very modest measure, of material prosperity.
His normal working day at this time was one of fourteen or fifteen hours, and he refused to spare himself one hour of toil, though under the strain blindness was rapidly coming on.
Of course, Wikipedia is another textbook example where people toil for no payment, and anonymously as well.
I'll just toil away with the default stuff.
In one such operation in Alang, India, alone, 40,000 persons toil daily under the most hazardous occupational conditions outside of warfare.
The two or three 5-minute journeys for water are, after the toil of the day, no real further hardship.
Viper 's bugloss prefers a dry toil and is common on the chalk downs and on sea cliffs in many places.
The Roman numbers for 13 May 1940 are on her left underarm signifying the date Winston Churchill gave his Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat speech.
But with some time and some toil you'll be entering in some free Wii codes in no time.
Indeed, these underage workers toil away in the windowless rooms of buildings that would otherwise be condemned in the United States.
People purchasing counterfeit goods save money at a large cost to others, specifically children who live on the premises of large warehouse facilities and toil away at sewing machines for long, underpaid, and thankless hours.
Expressing humility by tending to trash, scrubbing toilets and lessening the toil of your teachers is pretty standard and healthful in my opinion.
Business owners who purchase office forms or toil over creating them from scratch, take heed; free online office forms are readily available from a variety of sources.
Only by degrees did the events of the 19th of Brumaire stand out in their real significance; for the new consuls, installed at the Luxemburg palace, and somewhat later at the Tuileries, took care that the new constitution, which they along with the two commissions were now secretly drawing up, should not be promulgated until Paris and France had settled down to the ordinary life of pleasure and toil.
The Malays are indolent, pleasure-loving, improvident beyond belief, fond of bright clothing, of comfort, of ease, and they dislike toil exceedingly.
It is in proportion as a sedentary life prevails, and agricultural exploitation is practised on a larger scale, whilst warlike habits continue to exist, that the labour of slaves is increasingly introduced to provide food for the master, and at the same time save him from irksome toil.
If, on the one hand, huge stones are transported hundreds of miles from sea-shore or river-bed where, in the lapse of long centuries, waves and cataracts have hammered them into strange shapes, and if the harmonizing of their various colors and the adjustment of their forms to environment are studied with profound subtlety, so the training and tending of the trees and shrubs that keep them company require much taste and much toil.
Celsus and Porphyry are the two early literary opponents of Christianity who have most claim to consideration, and it is worth noticing that, while they agree alike in high aims, in skilful address and in devoted toil, their religious standpoints are widely dissimilar.
To the outward eye his gigantic strength and herculean build lent him the appearance of health and vigour, but forty years of unintermittent toil and anxiety had told upon him, and during the last two-and-twenty years of his reign, by which time all his old self-chosen counsellors had died off, he apathetically resigned himself to the course of events without making any sustained effort to stem the rising tide of Protestantism and democracy.
For the first time since his boyhood he no longer felt the daily goad urging him to the daily toil.