Sentence examples for a travail from inspiring English sources

[C7.] The onslaught of spam has been a travail for millions of Internet users.

Finding a parking spot is such a travail that Calvin Trillin once wrote a book about it.

Shopping for clothes in the uncharted netherworld between Forever 21 and Eileen Fisher can be a travail.

If putting on a production in a repertory opera house is always such a travail, then when will there be time to incorporate new research into a performing edition?

His right knee has been operated on five times, he's torn thigh or groin muscles three times, and has missed the last two World Cups because of injuries suffered in the final months before each tournament - a travail raw enough to send him into psychiatric treatment for depression on-and-off for the last three years.

A: This travail has been excruciating to my family.

The slot parlor at Aqueduct will be the city's first casino and will bring to an end a lengthy travail of false starts, delays and political squabbling.

She propels herself through a frightening travail in the wilderness with an ardent, irrepressible monologue, much of it directed to her absent lover.

To others, it represents a dull travail.

Institutions include a Université du Travail (business college), a medical and surgical institute, and an archaeological museum.

A keener eye from observing a grandmother's travails A grandmother's Alzheimer's was the main inspiration for Still Alice.