How to Use toil in a Sentence

toil

1 of 2 noun

• The Premier League has brought toil.
  — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
• The scientists' toil wouldn’t win any green-thumb awards down here on Earth.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 7 June 2022
• Outside, a group of tourists paused to watch her toil, then one read the restaurant sign near the door aloud.
  — Natalie B. Compton The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 July 2026
• And before the advent of labor laws, children were part of that toil.
  — Maria Teresa Hart, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
• The emotional toil caused by doomscrolling has been shown to cause real harm.
  — ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
• Play gives you everything — including a new kind of toil all its own.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
• Until then, they’re left with the tedious toil of prepping garden plots.
  — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
• Although the marquee did not glow for quite some time, toil and hope were always behind the scenes.
  — Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 23 Jan. 2026
• Death takes the reins of a poor farmer’s horses, suggesting that the end of life is a relief from toil.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 24 Mar. 2022
• During those decades were years of toil, thrills, successes, and yes, painful failures too.
  — Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• A lot of kids toil in the mines, ultimately bringing some of that ore to the markets.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 14 June 2021
• For me, at least, suffering on the trail means that the pain and toil tend to crowd out space for convenience.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2022
• No one wants to hear that they are being taken advantage of or that their toil didn’t mean anything.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that.
  — Jim Millercommunity Voices Contributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2022
• That goes double double toil and trouble for Halloween masks.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 13 Oct. 2022
• Most writers have always had to suffer unrelated toil just to be able to pay the bills.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
• Most of the film captures the physical and emotional toil of the ascent.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
• This could lead to new deliveries for shareholders and customers once your team is freed from toil.
  — Mark Hull, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• First and foremost, breaks from the stress and toil of work are essential components of healing from burnout.
  — Dj Didonna, Time, 13 July 2026
• That visceral sense of departure, not just from the shore but from the daily toil, is what draws us back year after year.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• But even after decades of toil and a tour-de-force measurement, the evidence is not conclusive.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2020
• Half of them work mostly at home and the rest toil at home some days and in their Sherman Oaks office on others.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• In the placid, rolling landscape that unfurls behind him, women in traditional dress toil in the fields.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
• Both were premised on the idea of frictionless ease, liberating their users from outmoded toils.
  — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
• The conceit of narrating a year in one’s life through the toils and sensations of the kitchen is one that many have taken up before.
  — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
• The juggling could have rankled Hardrick, filling him with the desire to cleave the toil from his identity as an artist.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2022
• And yet, our forebears did not dream of our communities to be mired in struggle and toil for generations.
  — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, was a change, and the men who came to the scene of daily toil this morning will never return alive.
  — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 10 June 2026
• Across the nation, state governments are struggling to operate in the wake of the past year of economic toil.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2020
• Many who had worked on the election, exhausted from months of unrelenting toil, took leaves of absence or moved on to other jobs.
  — Craig Timberg, Elizabeth Dwoskin, Reed Albergotti, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2021

toil

2 of 2 verb

• They were toiling up a steep hill.
• For the last four years, the players on stage toiled to reach this moment.
  — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 27 May 2026
• The tech and auto giants could still toil for years on their driverless car projects.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2021
• Mark, 52, toiled in a hot dog factory.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 28 June 2026
• Others toiled in restaurants and cleaned hotel rooms.
  — Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2026
• Many are still forced to toil as scavengers, cleaning sewers and septic tanks by hand.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
• Allister toiling as the build-up play was too slow and predictable.
  — James Pearce, New York Times, 24 May 2026
• Boyarsky toils in a back room drenched in natural light, her cat Roxy at her side.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
• While the opera Lulu was playing out front, the tuner and his son toiled backstage.
  — Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
• Young lawyers still toil over documents, billing their time in six-minute increments.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 14 July 2026
• These workers toiled for long hours at the site—which doubled as a prison—alongside donkeys to grind grain for bread.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• Bands could spend years toiling away to create something half as impactful.
  — Jeff Yerger, SPIN, 4 Mar. 2024
• Bulls are constantly toiling away at endeavors that speak to their artistry.
  — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• Wine producers do not toil for months so that their wine can be put to industrial uses.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2023
• In Ishmaelle’s case that meant toiling away in poverty for the rest of her life back in Kent.
  — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
• Workers often toil high above remote landscapes.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
• Workers often toil high above remote landscapes.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
• Yoriko toils in anonymity in Nagi as a sculptor of human figures hewn from raw blocks of wood.
  — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
• In the early days, steelworkers toiled in extreme heat, catching steel hot rods with cotton gloves and tongs.
  — Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
• Jackson spent time in and out of shelters in grade school and remembers how her mother toiled to keep her in class and out of harm's way.
  — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 28 Dec. 2025
• Screenwriter John Orloff spent thousands of hours over the course of a decade toiling on the script.
  — Chloe Melas, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2024
• But a lot of those formative years were spent toiling in London’s open-mic scene and busking on the streets.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2026
• Those rooms are often oversubscribed, forcing workers to wait for their turn—and sometimes to toil through the night alone.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
• That’s because most of them spent their careers toiling in relative anonymity.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• How could kids grow properly if they were forced, from their earliest years, to toil in factories, on farms, or in mines?
  — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
• While Alina toils in the greenhouses, Lucian makes new friends.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 May 2026
• Had the trolls toiling in the darkest tunnels of the internet shown up at her actual doorstep?
  — Literary Hub, 30 June 2026
• But even while toiling away at their laptops, professionals can take one short step to return to their center.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
• After toiling for two hours to really assert themselves on the hosts, the game went to penalties.
  — Beren Cross, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2026
• Hundreds of thousands of workers still toil underground here in some of the world’s oldest and deepest shafts.
  — Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2023