Sentence examples for a steep toll from inspiring English sources

Compromise, timidity, and the ugliness of the legislative process — not all of it unavoidable — have exacted a steep toll.

Western restrictions on Iran's banks, oil exports and related industries have taken a steep toll on the Iranian economy.

A steep toll road takes you down to Ringstead beach on the great curve of Weymouth Bay.

PAGE A8 North of Border, a Steep Toll The Johnson family settled in Columbus, N.M., in the days of the Mexican marauder Pancho Villa.

But Apple is exacting a steep toll: 30 percent of the cost of the subscription and ownership of subscriber data like names and e-mail addresses if the purchase is made through its App Store.

Now that Sandy has exacted a steep toll in lives and property, the question is unavoidable: why do so many people in America refuse to take climate science seriously?

After a year's to-and-fro with Health Super, King finally got in front of its board, flanked by Craig Bennett and David Ball, punctuating her PowerPoint presentation with knockout statistics: that someone in the world dies from tobacco use every eight seconds; that these include 15,000 Australians a year; that no substance takes a steeper toll of lives and years lost.

Over time they resurface, but by then they have often taken a steeper toll on our psychological and physical wellbeing.

It all comes at a steep price.

A steep price, actually, all things considered.

Deferral, however, comes at a steep price.