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Definition of "toiled" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of toil. (verb)

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Use "toiled" in a sentence
  • "Defending champion Roger Federer, sheltered from soaring day one temperatures at the French Open, watched as two contenders to his title toiled in the Roland Garros sweatshop."
  • "More an open-book into history; than an enjoyable journey, Phillip Noyce’s thought-provoking, and ultimately distressing “Rabbit-Proof Fence” is the inspired re-telling of three aboriginal children forced from their homes and strained into camps without their mothers in toiled times of 1931 Australia."
  • "In it he laid the trap with the same gentleness of handling, locked the chain round one of the trees, and finally slid back the guard which was placed to keep the gin from accidentally catching the arms of him who set it, or, to use the local and better word, "toiled" it."