have been toiling
- present perfect progressive of toil.
Example Sentences
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Radjaa Aboudagga and his team have been toiling since 6:00 am to create the Middle Eastern dishes for families and friends of all ages seated on mats or at tables.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025
While farmworkers have been toiling in these fields for more than a century now, their conditions have improved little with the passage of time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
These three women have been toiling over this project for at least seven years.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2023
Now thousands of workers who should have been toiling in France were redirected to the Ruhr to repair the dams.
From BBC ● May 15, 2013
I have been toiling up this long steep road, under that broiling sun, for more than an hour; my cabriolet is I know not where.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
