How to Use travail in a Sentence

travail

noun

• They finally succeeded after many months of travail.
• But that wouldn’t explain the travails of Germany‘s Olaf Scholz.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• Buffalo pulled out a 66-63 win in the game, but that was only the start of the Eagles’ travails.
  — Jeff Kirik, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2020
• But that wouldn’t explain the travails of Germany’s Olaf Scholz.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• Perhaps nothing better sums up the travails of the Cubs than Darvish.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• June, forever our guide through the travails of Gilead.
  — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 6 June 2019
• For all of its own recent travails, the PSOE has never been as down on its luck as many of its peers are.
  — Omar G. Encarnación, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2019
• My old knees and my daily travails make that a deal-breaker.
  — Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 27 Nov. 2019
• These travails aren’t tidily resolved by the book’s end.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
• The travails, however, didn’t end with the hostages’ safe return.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• The shortcomings and travails of both countries pain me.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• Who will miss the slaughterhouses, with their groan of travail that was never easy to bear in any age?
  — Matthew Scully, National Review, 17 Jan. 2021
• The book details how the Red Sox developed the core of the 2018 World Series team and the behind-the-scenes triumphs and travails that went into it.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• So where do Tesla’s travails leave Eichin and her Cybertruck?
  — Simon Willis, Fortune, 27 July 2023
• Last week, Schapiro broke a new story about Giuliani’s travails.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2019
• My son, who’s a math junkie, couldn’t get enough of the math-nerd-saves-the-day scenes, only to give up on the movie when the Athletics’ travails in the field proved too stressful to watch.
  — Alexandra Samuel, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2018
• On this night, at least, the Dodgers devised a solution for Jansen's travails: Score so many runs he was not needed.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Carolyn was able to capture the honor and travail of spending 24/7 with young children so well.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
• Beirut, of course, is a place that has seen more than its share of travails, as the opening footage of the city in ruins in 1980 during the Lebanese Civil War illustrates.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
• The third phase is three capes Craig created to symbolize friends’ travails.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• The Verge has an inside look at the trials and travails of content moderators at Google’s YouTube.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2019
• Sometimes the ruse exploits kindness: the mark is moved to generosity on hearing of the prince’s travails.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• To be fair, the book is barely mentioned after the setup, and the focus shifts to the characters’ romantic travails and the gluey life lessons to be learned from them.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
• So when Johnson shared with Duncan his prom suit travails, Duncan went to Lipstein for help.
  — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 18 May 2018
• At a forum like the P.G.A. Championship, those travails separate the elite from the crowd of also-rans that will be thick since the field includes 156 players.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 16 May 2023
• Schultz’s book explains why this was so, in part by describing the travails of various enslaved people and the Ohioans who helped them.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• Wenger is no stranger to the travails of moving into a new home, following Arsenal's switch from Highbury to the Emirates in 2006.
  — SI.com, 12 May 2018
• In recent months, a new word has crept into the language: tracances, a mashup of work (travail) and vacation (vacances).
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
• And the increase in suicides in Massachusetts has been blamed on the travails of middle-aged men, who account for the largest number of suicide deaths.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
• On top of all of this, the political prize at the root of those travails — Jared Kushner’s White House post — appears to be losing its luster.
  — Sharon Lafraniere, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024