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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