TOLL in a Sentence
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24 example sentences for TOLL, such as:
1. And the bell would toll slowly.
2. The church bell tolled the hour.
3. We hear the church bell toll the hour again.
4. The pressure of fame can take a terrible toll.
5. Church bells tolled and black flags fluttered.
2. The church bell tolled the hour.
3. We hear the church bell toll the hour again.
4. The pressure of fame can take a terrible toll.
5. Church bells tolled and black flags fluttered.
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Meanings and Examples of TOLL
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toll
n. value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
n. a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
Classic Sentence:
1 When the Sunday-school hour was finished, the next morning, the bell began to toll, instead of ringing in the usual way.
2 We do not toll for little Kay; we do not know him.
3 Little Beau had cost her her health, and the hard work she had done at Tara since his birth had taken further toll of her strength.
4 The claim on Hunker Creek took toll from its possessors.
5 And the bell would toll slowly.
6 We crossed the Liffey in the ferryboat, paying our toll to be transported in the company of two labourers and a little Jew with a bag.
7 But Eumaeus called to his men and said, "Bring in the best pig you have, that I may sacrifice him for this stranger, and we will take toll of him ourselves."
8 He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS C...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS C...
9 Cannon to the south, and they might be tolling the knell of Atlanta's fall.
10 Oswald the cupbearer modestly suggested, "that it was scarce an hour since the tolling of the curfew;" an ill-chosen apology, since it turned upon a topic so harsh to Saxon ears.
11 Somewhere near, a passing bell was tolling; the dogs all round the neighbourhood were howling; and in our shrubbery, seemingly just outside, a nightingale was singing.
12 In the distance there was a church-tower bell that tolled the hours one by one.
13 The ponderous castle-bell had tolled the point of noon, when Rebecca heard a trampling of feet upon the private stair which led to her place of confinement.
14 At the hour appointed, Lord de Winter and the four friends repaired to the convent; the bells tolled, the chapel was open, the grating of the choir was closed.
15 Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls.
Example Sentence:
1 Official reports put the death toll at under one hundred, but unofficial estimates speak of at least two hundred dead.
2 The pressure of fame can take a terrible toll.
3 The strike took a heavy toll in lost productivity.
4 We hear the church bell toll the hour again.
5 A toll road, also known as a toll way or turnpike, is a road for which a driver pays a fee for use.
6 They could hear the sound of a bell tolling in the distance.
7 Church bells tolled and black flags fluttered.
8 The church bell tolled the hour.
9 Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.