Sentence examples for tolls from inspiring English sources

The word 'tolls' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun meaning a fee that you have to pay to use a road or a bridge, or as a verb meaning to ring a bell. For example: "Drivers have to pay a toll to use the Golden Gate Bridge." "The clock tower in the city center tolls on the hour."

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tolls

noun

Plural of toll

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Barbed-wire fencing along the 102-mile route ensures that the Expressway keeps India's perennial maelstrom at bay, and the high tolls preserve the route for the wealthiest of drivers.

Duncan Anderson Immingham, Lincolnshire As over £30bn of taxpayers' money is to be used on improving UK infrastructure, it would be helpful if some of this largesse could be used to remove the Severn Bridge tolls.

If you're there when he's in action, Mrs Ambrose tolls the church bell to let villagers know when her boy has taken a wicket.

Despite the high death tolls, Adnan tells Mona morale is high, with news of the reported kidnap of an Israeli soldier: We believe that the resistance is winning.

If demand rises as forecast, the expansion can be delivered to budget, and if shippers do not balk at higher tolls, the canal will be even better business for the government.

But it still bars them from levying tolls on the unimproved portions of existing roads.

Annual death tolls are heavily influenced by outliers, such as Haiti's earthquake in 2010 (which killed more than 200,000) or the Bangladeshi cyclones in 1970 (300,000).

Last year, for the first time, it gave states free rein to charge tolls on new highways built with federal help, or on new lanes added to existing ones.

There are also heavy tolls on China's roads, and lorries are restricted from entering most urban areas so must transfer goods onto smaller vehicles.

But the gantries supporting the new electronic tolls for roads in Gauteng, South Africa's richest and most populous province, had come to represent the state's bullying power and were loathed.

Its scheme is full, because consumers pay no premium, says Greenpeace's Stephen Tindale.In this section The not-so-common touch Dons go a-begging Virtue for sale Bush House of Arabia Time to talk Monkey business Business past, business future Naomi's chilling effect For whom the school bell tolls ReprintsBut it doesn't take much self-interest to trump tight-fistedness.

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