Example Sentences

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Keuer wonders if the work is worth it, noting how hard he toils for little pay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

Co-produced with Edgar Barrera and Sky Rompiendo, the song toils with the wistfulness of what never came to be, and the hope of what could become.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

So are the film’s many montages underlining Ryuta’s plight — he toils at multiple jobs to care for his sick mother — that reduce the character to something of a sob story.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024

After Aziza, a working-class woman, toils overtime to buy Shokry’s first wish, she gets snared in Egypt’s arbitrary, labyrinthine justice system.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney