toll

[US]/təʊl/
[UK]/toʊl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. to collect (money) as toll; to ring a bell
n. a fee for passage; a price to be paid; the sound of a bell
vi. to sound a bell; to levy a tax

Phrases & Collocations

toll booth

highway toll

toll road

death toll

take its toll

road toll

toll station

take a toll

toll free

toll fee

toll plaza

toll gate

toll charge

Example Sentences

tolls are a daily expense.

the decision will probably toll the knell for the facility.

the toll of dead and injured mounted.

The church bell tolled the hour.

a self-liquidating toll-bridge project.

a death toll from the railway accident

the environmental toll of the policy has been high.

the bells of the cathedral began to toll for evening service.

the bell of St Mary Le Bow began to toll the curfew.

a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls.

A man collected tolls at the gateway.

he supervised the exaction of tolls at various ports.

years of pumping iron have taken their toll on his body.

It can be in a vending or gumball machine, pay phone or toll plaza.

The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.

After six weeks of uncertainty, the strain was beginning to take its toll.

the exigent demands of her contemporaries' music took a toll on her voice.

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