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"toiling away" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English
It generally means to work hard and persistently at something, usually for a long period of time. For example: After toiling away in the garden all day, I was exhausted but satisfied with the results.
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A last-legs veteran toiling away on a lottery club?
It's about guys like Terry McLernon toiling away for years.
Before I had kids, I was an anxious overachiever toiling away in a Chicago high rise.
Start with an eager but thwarted youngster, toiling away in the sands of an unregarded planet?
Overmatched workers for United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organizations are toiling away, many of them heroically.
Toiling away at redundant reports, poring over rumours bought from shady characters, intelligence analysts get depressed.
Nuclear physicists toiling away on £15,000 tend to run short of it.
For the bloggers, toiling away in their front rooms, it was heady stuff.
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Most toiled away in anonymity.
How many writers toil away for years and for nothing?
They toil away for years on a single work.
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