Example Sentences

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Not a colleague, note, far less a fellow toiler among the philistines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

At grocer Fairway Market in Manhattan’s Upper West Side neighborhood, shelves normally full of pasta, Oreo cookies, pasta sauce, crackers and toiler paper were depleted on Thursday evening.

From Reuters • Mar. 13, 2020

A classic toiler is the scientist who works for years on a particular problem, contributing small advances that help to take the field forward.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2019

If she’d gotten the story right, it would have been a moment straight out of “42nd Street”: plucky behind-the-scenes toiler makes the big time!

From Salon • Jun. 29, 2015

And Hercules, so grandly represented by Browning himself as the unselfish toiler for others, feels at one moment that he has been outdone in generosity by Admetus.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward