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    Use "toiling" in a sentence

    toiling example sentences

    toiling


    1. It was actually two rooms, the outer one a bit smaller, the inner one with a bay window behind him overlooking a scene of Bantu laborers toiling in the fields


    2. thirsty labour, toiling up and down the hills on the winding and dusty


    3. The floor was covered with tables piled high with paperwork over which a dozen Gnomes were toiling


    4. The looks we got from the toiling mass were indeed beseeching, and we felt obliged to return and to load theirs as well


    5. Immature grievances commonly expressed nowadays by students toiling over ―useless‖ Algebra and ―dated‖ languages like Latin and Greek considered unnecessary or incompatible with a student‘s career objective(s) misses the point entirely; that is to say, their functional


    6. or from years of toiling with my conscience


    7. For if the State were failing to manipulate workers into toiling and producing goods and services, then what would be the solution? One solution would be for the State to use force to dragoon the people into working and doing what it desires


    8. Just a few minutes ago I was toiling away in my garden, when


    9. His mother grieved to see him work so hard; she sorrowed that he was day by day toiling at the carpenter's bench earning a living for the family instead of being, as they had so fondly planned, at Jerusalem studying with the rabbis


    10. Ahead of him he saw the sailors toiling, spurred on by the terror that gripped them

    11. In the distant east, cut off from the rest of the world by the heaving up of gigantic mountains and the forming of a chain of vast lakes, the Lemurians are toiling as slaves of their ancient masters


    12. Besides they were exhausted from toiling over defence installations, filling sandbags, digging trenches, building watchtowers and hauling ammunition


    13. They saw a few farmers that were toiling their plots nearby,


    14. Grasshopper,”instead of toiling and moiling in


    15. Bavaria, unable to be patient with the toiling, sweaty trio behind her


    16. The wooden barrack housing him and another hundred or so Americans taken prisoners in Korea had only a single small pot-bellied stove to heat it, and their Chinese captors were quite stingy with the coal they provided for it, even though the hundreds of American prisoners of war held in Manzhouli were the ones toiling day-long to extract it from the local coal mine


    17. He kept toiling away, hoping beyond hope that something would come along to


    18. My mind soaring in multiple directions in the stratosphere while toiling under an old pickup truck, trying desperately to fix a seized starter, while the authorities watched, applying maximum psychological pressure


    19. nearer, and he saw a solitary reaper toiling at


    20. some devoted ones toiling there already

    21. The tall farmer, bent by decades of toiling in his fields,


    22. Were toiling upward in the night


    23. During the 10 years between the loss of the election in 1974 and the second miners’ strike in 1984, Margaret Thatcher was toiling upward in the night, considering and consolidating her power, ready for the time when there would be a reasonable prospect of victory


    24. So Amalek then is a demonic power that comes to steal away your spiritual life, to steal away the blessing, to steal away your life with God, and he comes at times when you are going through struggles, difficulties, misunderstandings, pressures; and you're feeling weary and toiling and straining a bit


    25. The deckdogs are toiling hard


    26. A man toiling for his livelihood is not a free man


    27. Everhorn had flown into a rage at such a lack of compassion, and the minister had spent the long hunting season instead stooped and toiling in the fields


    28. And I, after the first flush of doing a good deed was over and cool reflection had resumed its sway, which it did by the time I was toiling up the hill on the way home after having been unanimously rejected as mistress by the assembled maidens, I repented; for was not Johanna now my only hope? 'Frau Meyer,' whispered Reflection in my despondent ear, 'will engage her to go to her permanently on the 1st, and she will go because of the twenty marks more salary


    29. So after 30 months and of sweating and toiling, near bankruptcy and tremendous stress, Medusa Bar was finally completed


    30. Every wrinkle on his parched face had been earned toiling on

    31. toiling hard and writing steadily ever since the last patrol, and he was about to finish what


    32. But, if you speak to the workers still toiling it out in the country’s


    33. His days in the city were spent training the protectors, planning improvements, toiling physically until he'd trudge back to his house exhausted, and collapse onto his bed only to awake early and continue with the same


    34. toiling, struggling ones on earth are “accepted in the


    35. A blues singer who sang as if his soul had been toiling the earth’s soil for centuries


    36. But the print quality was astounding, rich and striking, these pages laid down almost half a millennium ago, the printers in Lyon toiling late into the night, checking registration by candlelight


    37. checking say one hundred and fifty pages for language corrections, then after days of toiling instead of


    38. At last, the days of earning a living while toiling


    39. That toiling with tools is unquestioningly Good


    40. perpetually toiling and facing the earth

    41. TIP! For those who love the idea of toiling in their own vegetable garden, allergies caused by mold and pollen can seem especially oppressive


    42. see the caravans toiling onward,


    43. The feeble fingers were never idle, and one of her pleasures was to make little things for the school children daily passing to and fro, to drop a pair of mittens from her window for a pair of purple hands, a needle-book for some small mother of many dolls, pen-wipers for young penmen toiling through forests of pothooks, scrapbooks for picture-loving eyes, and all manner of pleasant devices, till the reluctant climbers of the ladder of learning found their way strewn with flowers, as it were, and came to regard the gentle giver as a sort of fairy godmother, who sat above there, and showered down gifts miraculously suited to their tastes and needs


    44. "Not a moment's peace!" he cried; "always at it! I can't go out for a minute! Like a plough-horse, I have always to be moiling and toiling


    45. At last I came to the conclusion that it must be something in the nature of the life itself; the sea-life chosen blindly, embraced for the most part accidentally by those men who appeared but a loose agglomeration of individuals toiling for their living away from the eyes of mankind


    46. She grew smaller, lost proportion, seemed only like a large white bird toiling forward


    47. Fifteen years, I answered; and when they have reached fifty years of age, then let those who still survive and have distinguished themselves in every action of their lives and in every branch of knowledge come at last to their consummation: the time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the universal light which lightens all things, and behold the absolute good; for that is the pattern according to which they are to order the State and the lives of individuals, and the remainder of their own lives also; making philosophy their chief pursuit, but, when their turn comes, toiling also at politics and ruling for the public good, not as though they were performing some heroic action, but simply as a matter of duty; and when they have brought up in each generation others like themselves and left them in their place to be governors of the State, then they will depart to the Islands of the Blest and dwell there; and the city will give them public memorials and sacrifices and honour them, if the Pythian oracle consent, as demigods, but if not, as in any case blessed and divine


    48. lake, and others were already toiling their way up the neighboring hills, with the restless curiosity of their nation


    49. ' When they see the spirit of this Mohican toiling after them with his burden, they will know we are of that mind


    50. Oh, I assure you, sir, it was a touching spectacle to see these young creatures, destined by their talents for higher stations, toiling together, and through their unwillingness to change any of the customs of their paternal house, taking six years to accomplish what less scrupulous people would have effected in two or three


































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    Synonyms for "toiling"

    drudging laboring labouring toiling

    "toiling" definitions

    doing arduous or unpleasant work