toiled

past tense of toil

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of toiled Keaton Middleton had the type of year last season that thousands of hockey players who have toiled away in the minors dream of. Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025 Holmes toiled for a decade in the minors before his first MLB call with the Braves in 2024. David O'Brien, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025 Notably, the designer has also toiled away on behalf of her namesake label. Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 9 Sep. 2025 While Jackson toiled with the training staff on the sidelines, Stafford was in street clothes for all of July and the first half of August. Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025 For the past decade, singer-songwriter Corrina — aka Corrina Grant Gill — has toiled in intimate spaces like Music City's The East Room, gaining comparisons to soulful and pop-styled stars like Chris Stapleton and Carrie Underwood. Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 9 Aug. 2025 The procession stopped at the farm where the future president toiled alongside the Black sharecroppers who worked for his father. Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 5 Jan. 2025 The husky Black man from the Bronx toiled for every inch of respect, beset by toxicity and misinformation, as hairy white folk-rock and boogie-band alumni pushed similar buttons to become the de facto bards of the everyman. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025 Aristocrats feasted while peasants toiled and poor Parisians starved, and new delicacies like the banana debuted against a backdrop of imperialist adventures. Amy Crawford, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toiled
Verb
  • These women, many of whom worked in relative obscurity for all their lives, labored to redefine the rights and dignity of all people.
    Time, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Hammond labored 50 hours over a two week span to create her project.
    R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Both teams are currently ranked in the top 10, and as is well-documented, Franklin has struggled in such games.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The food bank has struggled to keep up with demand following the cuts and a decrease in private donations.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Höglander worked hard this offseason, arrived at camp in excellent shape and was a standout in Penticton and in his two preseason appearances.
    Thomas Drance, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • For Ramos, who has worked for over a decade with therapy dogs, equine therapy is a new way to bring that comfort to patients and other children.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Toiled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toiled. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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