Toiling in example sentence

Why is my old friend Matrena toiling so (I doctored her after the fire, when she was struck by a girder)?' he thought, looking at a thin peasant woman who pushed the grain along with a rake, her dark sunburnt bare feet stepping with effort on the hard uneven barn floor.

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In my years toiling away in labs and in people's backyards, investigating and cataloging the microscopic life around us, I'd never made clear my true mission to him.

And the people toiling up the mountain could see them, these tiny little people up there, incredibly halfway up the cliff.

How many Ramanujans are there in India today toiling in the fields, barely able to feed themselves, when they could be feeding the world?

I can't imagine how disheartening it must be for the actors and crew to go to work each day, toiling to churn out such crap.

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