Sentence Examples
Slow to adapt to a new formation the visitors toiled in the early stages, but their defence was solid with Simon Burnett unbreachable in goal. |
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He toiled over the assignment, finally coming up with numerous proofs, most of which were undeviatingly honest. |
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As a swarm of roadies toiled about with their pre-show set-up, a revolutionary thought crossed my mind. |
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A virtual hagiography has emerged around missionary translations, describing the trying conditions under which these early translators toiled. |
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He had toiled unflaggingly to make a name for himself, as a javelin thrower. |
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This time though, his team were not the slugabeds who had toiled so morosely against Austria, Poland and England in Manchester. |
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However, Inverness toiled to make their victory a certainty but the second goal 13 minutes from the end was an unspectacular affair. |
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Hoduet neglected his work, but his wife gamely toiled as a tailoress after their child's birth. |
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Tenant farmers who toiled on the estate were obliged to use the mill to grind their corn. |
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Most of these worked as domestics and laborers in urban areas, although some toiled on rural farms and haciendas. |
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For the span of a half an hour, I had toiled at my footgear with the cotton of a wet sleeve on a tunic, as the others were cooking the meal. |
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Buek toiled away, carrying pails of gore from the surgeon's table and tearing up strips of cloth for bandages. |
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He toiled manfully with the task, bravely maintaining that the national picture was not as grim as the newspapers would have us believe. |
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Byrd toiled as a bailiff in Brooklyn during the late 1980s, guarding family court judges including Sheindlin. |
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Workers toiled in a cloud of dust in the light of powerful lamps set up to help them see. |
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Club members had toiled long and hard to build these rooms and the photographers were showing no respect. |
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The sun beat down on Peter as he toiled away, never going away yet never truly coming out. |
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After an hour the fairways and greens were laced with perspiration as the two divisions toiled away under the heavy skies. |
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Of a kind and generous disposition he toiled hard all his life for the good of his family. |
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He had toiled hard to earn it and it would long be his cherished possession. |
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He thinks about this a moment and then issues a bleak verdict on the drug-policing system in which he's toiled for the past 25 years. |
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Geraldine's sixth class pupils were certainly as busy as Santa's little helpers as they toiled packing shoeboxes full of toys and other items. |
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At a distance, the cranes, the earthmovers, the construction workers toiled hard and dug deep. |
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Singleton's father toiled as a day laborer in the oil fields but frequently there was no work, so he came home early. |
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And so, while scientists toiled in their labs, the market for dictation tools faded like a distant radio signal. |
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This explains, in part, why he toiled in anonymity for the better part of two decades. |
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He truly toiled and moiled just to accept God's will when he prayed at Gethsemane. |
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As he toiled, she lay flat on her back on the living room floor, occasionally scratching her belly but mostly just watching Nick at Nite and eating bonbons. |
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Who was the fraud, the vicious self-appointed censor, or the artist who toiled daily to transmit to future ages his graceful and winning reveries? |
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On the eve of the First World War, having completed his magnum opus Principia Mathematica on which he had toiled for 10 years, Russell was at a loose end. |
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Mace and battleaxe heads were given over to carpenters who toiled on stools amidst the wood-shaving strewn floor as they fashioned handles, thongs and grips. |
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This was not because European workers toiled less intensively. |
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Workers had toiled to move dirt to fill in the deeper puddles and the match was able to proceed with two days of fast shooting in excellent weather. |
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He toiled without money to do that, but for him it had been an incredibly fulfilling and rewarding experience. |
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The two met on the Bush campaign, where Ted toiled in the domestic policy shop. |
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He observes, rightly, that the Calabrian peasant who has toiled for long hours in the field does not want to come home to a grilled sardine and an undressed green salad. |
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If you've ever toiled as a courier, a taxi driver, a pizza deliveryman, or a tramp, you've probably wandered into the nether regions of the FM dial. |
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I know teacher-training institutions have toiled diligently to prove otherwise, but children don't just discover things like the past perfect, the subjunctive and the gerund. |
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They used to be called fitters, and conjured up images of fusspots, who toiled away in dark workshops designing and constructing oil-covered dirty machines for industry. |
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He is the longest-serving chief of staff in 46 years, yet he reminds people that he toiled many years at a McDonald's and spent one summer as a garbage collector. |
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He toiled as a Broughton draper, selling cloth to merchants. |
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She has toiled assiduously to establish her reputation as Australia's preeminent printmaker, working as she has with large dry-points, embossings, etchings, and monoprints. |
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The Dream had been with Faustinus since childhood, and it glowed again, like a particolored mosaic, as his litter-bearers toiled through the slums toward the Palatine Hill. |
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We toiled over the capstan, and late in the afternoon slipped out of the harbour. |
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Bell toiled for the Eskimos this past season while the other three were members of the Saskatchewan Roughriders. |
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The rhythm of the song served to synchronize the movements of the sailors or to pace the labor as they toiled at repetitive tasks. |
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Bantu slaves toiled under the control of and separately from their Somali patrons. |
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They toiled morning, noon and night to sell their idea and make it work. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
How it had toiled and hurt for him, that little hand, still rough and scarred! |
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The ropedancer, Kuni, really had been with the sick mother and her babes, and had toiled for them with the utmost diligence. |
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Though all his life long he had toiled and moiled, he only left his widow and son two hundred florins. |
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He set all in order in the scriptorium where he had toiled for five long years. |
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She had toiled and moiled, and brought up her boys and girls in a way that won her pastor's heart. |
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Howbeit not yet was it ordained for the heroes to set foot on Achaea, until they had toiled even in the furthest bounds of Libya. |
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Farr toiled up the stairs, carrying one ice cube on his shoulder, with another swinging from tongs. |
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They knew no surcease from labor, but toiled on without murmur or complaint. |
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To think that I shuld hav toiled a life to stablish a reputashun, only to be classed as one of the biggest liars of America. |
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They toiled constantly until they had every wounded officer and man supplied with tentage, cots, blankets, and clean clothes. |
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It seems that Mr. Crisp here has toiled and moiled for many years, keeping you in comparative luxury and idleness. |
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Claes had been suddenly jerked from the ideal world in which he theorised and toiled into the real world of men. |
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Spurred on by his success and the ever increasing feeling of independence, Travis Gully toiled on thruout the spring. |
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But at front and rear, unawed and indomitable, toiled the two men who were not yet dead. |
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In the city Noah Wicker toiled laboriously over his first case which had been granted a rehearing, and set for November the sixth. |
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Thus they toiled and moiled, with their heads and shoulders in smoke and fire, and their feet in water. |
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He was a man of iron mind and frame, and toiled unceasingly. |
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And still the bull-dog, with grim certitude, toiled after him. |
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All day she toiled in a garden, and at night she worked with her needle. |
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And so during the third year he obstinately toiled on a work of revolt. |
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Surely not persons who had toiled and sweated to amass a few dollars. |
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The dimly lit backstairs of the office where I toiled writing showbiz tittle-tattle were known as Gropers Alley. |
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Women also toiled long and hard in Victorian Liverpool working as dressmakers, washerwomen and seamstresses. |
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He toiled on till dark, when he went out to the reading-room and explored magazines and weeklies until the place closed at ten o'clock. |
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Mayo toiled in the wallow of black water till his muscles ached. |
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Behind him churned a heavily loaded Yukon sled, and before him toiled a string of five dogs. |
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As the crew toiled on, Laplandish speculations were bandied among them, concerning all these passing things. |
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We've toiled oal night an' caught nothin', as the scripters say. |
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Initially, mulberries were not very sought after but the growers have toiled hard to popularise it, which has reaped fruitful results. |
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He could not but recall how feebly, and with what frequent pauses for breath he had toiled over the same ground, only two days before. |
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I've neither taken any nor found any,' she said, as I toiled to them, expanding her hands in corroboration of the statement. |
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He toiled on and did his best, while he renewed his resolve to steer clear of Daylight in the future. |
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Expectant mothers toiled in the fields until they felt their labor pains. |
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As he toiled on his breast ached under a pain that was superphysical. |
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They toiled their way to the farther end of the tunnel, then made their spliced kite-strings fast and moved on. |
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All day he toiled on untiringly, and by the evening he had succeeded in extracting ten handfuls of plaster and fragments of stone. |
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They toiled and moiled till they were quite exhausted, but all in vain. |
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It seems as if the earth toiled and moiled to simply supply her wants. |
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He had toiled and moiled, day and night, and been faithful to his trust. |
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Du Bois loomed first, for he had first envisaged this movement and many of us knew how gigantically he had toiled. |
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For a week, she toiled and perspired and suffered and was strong. |
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How she had toiled over that carpet, patching it and piecing it! |
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Wade toiled early and late, doing part of the chores and double her share of the Spring plowing that Martin, as well as Nellie, could attend school in Fallon. |
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Under the cover of these natural advantages, they toiled their way, with patient industry, until the scout pronounced that he believed it would be safe once more to land. |
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His eyes staring at nothing, his mouth open and frothing, and breathing as one in a cold bath, he went forward demented, while Dan toiled after him. |
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He could see himself as he would go forth with Rose, leaving behind the woman he had never loved and all that he had toiled so many years to amass. |
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For an hour the unhandy pen toiled over the paper, and where sentiment rose to more than normal tide-level, Bobby Wick stuck out his tongue and breathed heavily. |
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Feverish with desire, with aching back and stiffening muscles, with pick and shovel gouging and mauling the soft brown earth, the man toiled up the hill. |
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Cheyne's neck, and toiled up the long, long grades, past Ash Fork, towards Flagstaff, where the forests and quarries are, under the dry, remote skies. |
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So, grasping the rough protuberances of the rock, he tugged and toiled amain, and got himself quite out of breath, without being able to stir the heavy stone. |
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All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve. |
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Hard-handed men that work in Athens here, Which never labored in their minds till now, And now have toiled their unbreathed memories With this same play against your nuptial. |
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And so Jurgis fell to work, and toiled like a Trojan till night. |
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