Example sentences for: tolls

How can you use “tolls” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The building on the site dates from 1591 and served as a council chamber and courthouse for the town in addition to collecting tolls.

  • During the Civil War, nationalist sympathizers in the town were hurled to their deaths in the gorge, an event recalled by Hemingway in his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls.

  • All three face opposition from those who would like to privatize knowledge and charge tolls for its use.

  • Becker, Beijing bureau chief for the South China Morning Post , describes in gory detail how Mao Tse-tung's industrialization program, the Great Leap Forward of 1958, created a devastating famine--30 million dead, more than the combined tolls of Hitler and Stalin.

  • In 1275 the settlement of Amstelredamme, as it was known, received permission from Count Floris of Holland to transport goods along the river Amstel without incurring tolls, giving the city a monopoly on trade along the river.


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