Sentence examples for great toll from inspiring English sources

Opera exacts a great toll on the voice.

These practices took a great toll on customers.

Mr. Lopez said that his brother's absence had taken a great toll on his family.

It has taken a great toll on my family and my friends and the great people of Toronto".

For all the market's present effervescence, though, in the real world of profits and losses, Japan's recession is taking a great toll.

Page A26 Op-Ed BOB HERBERT The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have already taken a great toll, now loom as threats to President Obama's domestic initiatives.

They are also good for topics that are "human" in nature, like arguments about social justice, discrimination, or current events with great tolls on society (like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict).

Sometimes, a great bell tolls.

It takes its greatest toll on workers.

The downturn has taken its greatest toll on the poor.

The latter seems to have taken a greater toll.