Sentence examples for moil from inspiring English sources
verb
To toil, to work hard.
"When the days shorten," she writes, "the rattlers come passing through on their way to that hidden crevice, where, until spring, they'll sleep entwined in great complicated knots, moil all over each other, crawl outside to sun themselves on warm days.
("Spare me the picturesque moil on the rind of an old Gorgonzola in place of the dependable monotony of cream cheese!") Mr. Franzen's footnotes are speckled with comments like, "This sentence is very funny in German".
Service is perfect for certain moods; his dry wit and fine macabre sensibility are nice antidotes to the stuffed shirts who "moil for gold" on the Web and in Washington.
There was a constant moil of people harnessing horses, loading and unloading carts.
Ireland's national history — the Rising during the Great War, the war of independence following it, then a civil war following independence, all in quick, murderous succession — is the moil under the surface of Barry's novels, and "The Secret Scripture" is no exception.
The visitor centre fell away below us, while beyond it the mist moiled over the pennants of corporate hospitality marquees; Bosch, I think, or possibly tosh.
She made her way back up the hill, the wind whipping her kimono and sawing at the canes till they were like swords clashing together, and there was wind drift all over the surface of the pond, the koi moiling beneath it like pulsing flames.
While Europe still moiled in its Dark Ages, Baghdad was a city of booksellers, bathhouses, gardens, game parks, libraries.
She had a hole between her legs, oh not the bunghole I had always imagined, but a slit, and in this I put, or rather she put, my so-called virile member, not without difficulty, and I toiled and moiled until I discharged or gave up trying or was begged by her to stop.
So what can be done to ease the moiling frustration that must surely be infecting Brown's every synapse?
