How do you use the word "toll" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "toll" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "toll": The missile attack took a heavy toll of lives. The death toll from the hurricane climbed to 200.

Toll Meaning

/təʊl/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.

nounLoss or damage incurred through a disaster.

Sentence Examples

The missile attack took a heavy toll of lives.

The death toll from the hurricane climbed to 200.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

cost bell price

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Drivers must pay a ____ at the booth before crossing the bridge.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Drivers have to pay a small ____ early this morning to use the new bridge that crosses the wide and deep river today.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English toll m or n and toln f (“toll, duty, custom”), from Proto-West Germanic *toll, *tolnu, from Proto-Germanic *tullaz, *tullō (“that which is counted or told, reckoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“calculation, fraud”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tol (“toll”), Dutch tol (“toll”), German Zoll (“toll, duty, customs”), Danish told (“toll, duty, tariff”), Swedish tull (“toll, customs”), Icelandic tollur (“toll, customs”). More at tell, tale. Alternate etymology derives Old English toll from Medieval Latin tolōneum, tolōnium, alteration (due to the Germanic forms above) of Latin telōneum, from Ancient Greek τελώνιον (telṓnion, “toll-house”), from τέλος (télos, “tax”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged." — 1957 October 26, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 726:

"No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions." — c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

"I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toule for this. Ile none of him." — c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

"From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance." — 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

"When hollow murmurs of their evening bells Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells." — 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

Explore More B1 Vocabulary Words