What's the difference between roiled and toiled?

Roiled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Roil

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The self-described billionaire launched his campaign by referring to Mexicans as “rapists” and “killers”, the first in a series of controversial remarks that have roiled the GOP primary.
  • (2) Within six months, any stop, search or arrest by a police officer in the city – roiled by unrest in 2014 after the fatal shooting of unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown – must be captured on camera, according to the draft agreement with federal officials published on Wednesday.
  • (3) The issue may have roiled the political world this week, much as boasting of groping women overshadowed the previous debate, but what really distinguished the third and final television showdown of the reality TV election was the unusual amount of time both candidates devoted to attacking each other’s policies rather than each other.
  • (4) Or perhaps this latest ambush is just an excuse to resume the government’s internal warfare, which has been roiling away since January.
  • (5) Dazed survivors stand immobile in a huge, roiling cloud of dust.
  • (6) "Markets roiled" Bond traders continued to view Greek debt as hugely risky.
  • (7) Last month’s business sentiment was also weighed down by sharp declines in China’s stock market and a surprise currency devaluation that roiled markets worldwide and a devastating explosion in the busy port of Tianjin.
  • (8) The embarrassing event has the potential to torpedo the rest of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration and roil relations between the US and Mexico,” it said.
  • (9) The roiling is so surround sound it's hard to hear him.
  • (10) Following a month-long rout on Chinese stock markets, authorities devalued the yuan several times last week, roiling global equity markets and sparking fears of a currency war in which countries compete to boost exports by cutting the value of their currency.
  • (11) With the undocumented comprising as much as half of the uninsured population in Los Angeles, the issue has echoes of the roiling immigration debate.
  • (12) Leaders from Ferguson, Missouri , are to meet Department of Justice officials on Tuesday to discuss a federal review of their policing of the town, which was roiled by protests following the fatal shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old last year.
  • (13) The new measures come as the White House tries to both ratchet up pressure on Tehran to abandon its nuclear programme and dissuade Israel from launching a unilateral strike on Iran, a move that could roil the Middle East and jolt the global economy.
  • (14) The decision not to indict Pantaleo touched off protests that roiled the streets in New York City and beyond and raised issues of police brutality, racial equity and the efficacy of grand juries.
  • (15) The historical memory of his presidential monuments has been consumed by fantasies of small-town life but it is a landscape of whitewashed buildings against the undulating emptiness, a country roiling with dreams.
  • (16) Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has taken advantage of the political turmoil roiling Yemen.
  • (17) Rather than reach out he retreats, and roils at the fickleness of everything – entreating media boosters to validate him, telling the colleagues they have no right to desert him, while pondering who he can jettison in order to save himself.
  • (18) I’m also proud that [CPS] has moved in the opposite direction of some of the more regressive legislation that’s been passed.” Controversy is roiling over transgender students and their rights in the nations’ schools, with some schools and even whole states taking steps to force students to use facilities in conflict with their gender identity.
  • (19) Modi was ostracised for his actions, or inactions, during the Godhra riots , sectarian violence that roiled across his state for a month in 2002 in which 1,000 or more people, largely Muslim, died.
  • (20) Opinionated butchers, bakers and candlestick makers, hacks, artists and pornographers, impresarios and charlatans were now the protagonists in a roiling landscape of new ideas and opportunities.

Toiled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Toil

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Estonia had been reduced to 10 men early in the second half yet Hodgson’s men had to toil away for another 25 minutes before the goal, direct from Wayne Rooney’s free-kick, that soothed their mood and maintained their immaculate start to this qualifying programme.
  • (2) It would also throw a light on the appalling conditions in which cheap migrant labour is employed to toil Europe's agriculturally rich southern land.
  • (3) We're all in this together, says George Osborne, and with workers' wages lagging inflation, it is only fair that those who don't have to toil for a living should share in the squeeze.
  • (4) Kelly and KR continued to toil in the Wembley heat to no avail and after the forward Brad Singleton charged over for Leeds’ next, their race was well and truly run.
  • (5) Northampton toiled manfully to seek a way back into the tie with Holmes, two-goal hero from the first match, making a number of threatening runs.
  • (6) But though he’s helped liberate thousands of kids from servitude (and into education), 13 million children still toil in India’s supply chain alone.
  • (7) Around the world, young workers expected to toil for months at a time for little or no pay are battling to be rewarded fairly.
  • (8) The striker toiled alone for much of the match and even though Mauricio Pochettino insisted afterwards that there is no reason for Kane to be unable to continue carrying such a burden for the entire season, it is easy to see why Spurs are interested in signing another striker, notably West Bromwich Albion’s Saido Berahino.
  • (9) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
  • (10) Six years after Rover's collapse, there is certainly plenty of open space at the centre of this formerly thriving town: hundreds of acres of flattened muddy fields where 6,000 skilled workers once toiled.
  • (11) A place in the top four, now just a point away, is there for the taking given Chelsea’s toils across town and there is enough quality and momentum behind this team to take advantage.
  • (12) After 90 minutes of unremitting toil, perspiration and scant regard for loftier reputations, blame was starting to be apportioned.
  • (13) Take simple ingredients: an economy enduring bad times, a coalition in the toils, a world full of problems.
  • (14) We see Schenck, after toiling heroically in the underground field hospital, looking shocked at the antics of Hitler's entourage.
  • (15) Roy Hodgson claimed he always believed England would recover from their toils at the World Cup to progress unbeaten to next summer’s European Championship as his side completed a perfect qualifying record on a night marred by crowd trouble in Lithuania.
  • (16) He toiled away at drafting bills for Labour’s first 100 days in power – ready in time for tomorrow’s Queen’s speech.
  • (17) Paulinho’s toils have been the subject of tremendous scrutiny, after a season in which he did not influence games at Tottenham Hotspur as impressively as he did for Brazil at the Confederations Cup.
  • (18) What today’s landmark employment tribunal has done is challenge the business logic that suggests Uber drivers are not toiling for the firm but entrepreneurs working for themselves.
  • (19) But the second is his belief that some people are "somebodys" who are born to own, control and enjoy while others are "nobodys" whose lot is to serve, toil and endure – a mindset shared by most Nigerians, at every stratum of our society.
  • (20) 3) In case of "lacking genius" the individual toils in vain with science.

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