Example sentences for: tolls

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

  • Ernest Hemingway in such books as For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea wrote some dialogue in language that was phonetically English but suggests Spanish by its simpler, more formal grammar.

  • Legendary places plucked from the pages of popular novels and the lives of fiction writers need little input from visitors to evoke their storied past: Graham Greene’s Hotel Sevilla, where “Our Man in Havana” went to meet his secret service contact, and Hemingway’s favorite watering holes (El Floridita and La Bodeguita del Medio) and the Hotel Ambos Mundos, where he penned much of For Whom the Bell Tolls.

  • 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.

  • When he talked about the information superhighway, it was always in terms of collecting tolls on it.


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