Collocations for "toil"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "toil" in context.
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toil
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- toil to [produce, bring, create, complete]
- toil on the [plantation, ship]
- toil in the [fields, factory, mines, sun]
- toil at [work, home, school]
- toiled over [a hot stove, her patient, his project]
- toiled through [the night, long hours, adversity]
- toiled for [decades, years, days]
- toiling away on [their project, the research]
- toil in [vain, obscurity]
- toiled (on) [bravely, relentlessly, tirelessly, wearily, diligently]
- toil up a [hill, mountain, steep climb]
- a [long, hard] toil (to)
- [months, years] of toil (for nothing)
- [reward, recognition] after [years] of toil
- lived a life of toil
- has a life full of toil
- hardship and toil
- is a toil for [children, school kids, amateurs]
- the toil put into [making, doing, creating]