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toll

A toll is money you must pay to use a facility. A toll house was used to collect toll (payment) to travel on a road. A toll is a cost, or something bad that happens because of something. My illness has taken its toll, making me too sick to work. A toll is the sound made by a large bell. She could hear toll of the church bell.

toll

To toll is to ring a large bell slowly. He climbed the tower so he could help toll the church bell.

toll

a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance) ring slowly For whom the bell tolls (= price, cost) value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something the cost in human life was enormous the price of success is hard work what price glory? charge a fee for using Toll the bridges into New York City (= bell) the sound of a bell being struck saved by the bell she heard the distant toll of church bells

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Simple sentences

For whom does the bell toll?
This bridge used to be a toll bridge.
Blindness is responsible for a staggering toll of poor health, suffering, and loss of dignity and diminution in the quality of lives of people worldwide.
The death toll from the hurricane climbed to 200.
The toll from the accident was 5 persons dead and 100 persons injured.
We must pay a toll to drive on this road.
Do you pay the tunnel toll here?
The death toll is nearly 500.
For whom do the bells toll?
Who does the bell toll for?
You have to pay at the toll plaza.
Do we need to take a toll road? We're not in a hurry.
How often do you use toll roads?
This bridge was originally a toll bridge.
Do we need to take the toll road? We're not in a hurry.
Time takes its toll.

Movie subtitles

He lived in Westwood, so it was a toll call and there'd be a record of it.
That all who produce can take things to market without paying toll.
Get all the long-distance toll sheets.
The sun felt good the next morning, but the rain had taken its toll.
He's taken a fair toll of them.
Here's the toll road.
Today we heard. from a turnpike toll collector.
A peal for victory, a slow toll for defeat.
American or Russian. The expected death toll from highway accidents as well as swimming and boating mishaps may well exceed last year's record high.
I want every stagecoach paying its toll for passing through my land.
Those long internships do take their toll.
Toll the bell for them.
If the lord provides abundance, why should man have to toll?
Frost burns flowers' flush cheeks, and the Angel of Death takes his toll.
If they win, that'll toll the bell for us.
On this spring morning, all those not kept away by toll have come because there is sorrow in the house.
But the Great Depression had taken its toll on Universal, as well as most of the other studios, and they were in dire straits.
This is a toll call.
If I get any closer to that bridge we'll have to pay a toll charge.
Lady Penrose lived long enough to drag herself to the church and toll the bell in a frantic effort to call for help.
Ours by prior construction if we can make a deal now to buy your toll road.
Yep, I've been running this toll road for many years now.
Old Dick Wootton's toll house is close by now.
The years had taken no toll of him.
And for all that long night, the churchbells toll to keep away the spirits of evil.
YOU KNOW, MAYBE BY THE TOLL HOUSE OR SOMETHING.
I want everyone to put out a black flag outside their window and I want the bells to toll throughout the funeral procession.
Hello? Give me the toll operator, please.
Hello, toll operator?
For who do the bells toll now?
Indications are that the two squadrons of Japanese bombers attacking at dawn caused severe damage to Naval units and air forces based in Honolulu and took a heavy toll in lives.
The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll, and the third hour of drowsy morning name.
Passing ships had to pay a sound toll.
His sufferings are now taking their toll.
Moreover, the enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is indeed incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives.
This is a wonderful day look at the blue sky the bells toll their melody full of emotion.
The expected death toll from highway accidents as well as swimming and boating mishaps may well exceed last year's record high.
Can I toll the bells?
I heard the strange toll.
If you lose your dinner, it'll take its toll tomorrow.

News and current affairs

The resulting knowledge benefits everyone by stopping epidemics and limiting the economic and human toll of widespread illness.
Indeed, growth in earnings and profits is now running out of steam, as the effect of weak demand on top-line revenues takes a toll on bottom-line margins and profitability.
But it might also take a toll on how the world reacts to America's fastest-growing export: unsolicited advice.
The Nobel laureate economist William Vickrey argued tirelessly in favor of privately financed toll roads.
Private oversight can often produce better and more efficient construction, and, in theory, toll roads help alleviate traffic congestion.
That's a higher annual death toll than during World War II, and it's easier to prevent.
Indeed, the current growth model is also taking a heavy toll on the environment, with pollution threatening the population's health, especially in urban areas.
While the economic toll of graft cannot be precisely quantified, indirect evidence suggests that the costs are significant.
Great as the death toll, physical and emotional suffering of survivors, and property damage caused by the tsunami were, even greater losses could be inflicted by other disasters of low (but not negligible), or unknown, probability.
If such a toll could be substantially reduced at moderate cost, the investment would be worthwhile.
In times of war, accurate figures on the civilian death toll are almost always hard to come by.
The German minister of transport, for example, presided over a catastrophic and costly failure of a road toll system that he had proudly announced.
The horrific death toll among innocent theater-going Muscovites confirms Russia's struggle against Chechen rebels as a distinct and bloody front in the global war on terrorism.
According to non-government groups and other humanitarian workers, many North Korean children are showing signs of mental impairment as the lack of essential vitamins takes its toll.
There the scourge began in earnest; there (as elsewhere in Africa) it exacts its highest toll.
Weakness in the job market takes a huge toll on economic and personal well-being.
The toll taken by years of tough economic sanctions is also apparent.
Indeed, over 5,000 people were killed by organized drug criminals last year, more than double the death toll in 2007.
Despite its many successes since 1990, and the high popularity of the current president (Socialist Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first female chief executive), time is taking a toll.
Although none of these lapses provides any reason to doubt that global warming is real, is man-made, and will create problems for us, these challenges to the IPCC are taking their toll.
But chronic disease soon became a wider public-health issue as the death toll from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes seemed to rise.
Already, 60,000 people die every year from causes related to antimicrobial resistance in the United States and Europe - some ten times the worldwide death toll from the ongoing Ebola crisis.
Local conflicts, such as in Korea, Vietnam, parts of Africa, and the Middle East, took their toll.

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