Example Sentences

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Vale are toiling at the bottom of League One and so far on this cup run I have wrongly predicted they will lose to Fleetwood, Bristol City and Sunderland.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

“To all workers who are toiling in the shadows, know that we see you, we stand with you, and we will fight for you,” Su said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2023

With populations across East Asia declining and fewer young people entering the work force, increasingly workers like Mr. Oonami are toiling well into their 70s and beyond.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2023

Off the coast of Southern California, researchers are toiling to save endangered white abalone brought to the brink of extinction by overfishing, predators and warmer waters.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2019

Which we are toiling all our lives to find.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil