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toll - use in sentences
Object
- bell: As long as man still tolls the bell May life be well and fruitful.
Converse of object
- levy: This information can then be used to levy tolls.
- scrap: Significantly, a number of Labor backbenchers were in favor of scrapping the tolls on both bridges, against Executive policy.
Adjective modifier
- heavy: The last hundred years had taken a heavy toll.
- grim: With this population distribution, increasing human numbers and mounting development pressures are taking a grim toll on coastal and near-shore resources.
- civilian: More than 3,500 Iraqis were killed last month, the highest civilian monthly toll since the war began.
- appalling: And so my own sense is that sanctions, even the " smartest " sanctions, will continue to exact an appalling human toll.
Modifies a noun
- booth: You should show your badge at the toll booth.
- plaza: Microwave technology can now toll motorways at high speed, without the need for toll plazas.
- motorway: Monitoring efforts on toll motorways have been pushed for similar reasons.
- road: You can select to route using toll roads or avoiding them.
- gate: In the summer time, parking fees apply at a toll gate, during the off peak season tickets are issued from the cafe.
- bridge: A toll bridge across the River Trent at Walton was erected in 1834 at a cost of £ 7000.
Noun used with modifier
- death: At the time of writing, the death toll from the assault on the city remains unknown.
- motorway: Motorway tolls from Calais to La Tania are approximately £ 95 return.
- bell: At the site of each house there is a stone outline, and a short bell tower, whose bell tolls every two minutes.
- casualty: After the scandal of the needlessly high casualty toll of the Crimean War ( 1854-56 ), an assumption had taken firm hold.
Preposition: of
- bell: An hour's tolling of a bell would only bring a hundred people to a sermon.
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