How to Use toll in a Sentence

toll

1 of 2 noun
  • And the toll hikes won’t stop there.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • Pay the toll, get down the road.
    — Sean Clancy, Baltimore Sun, 16 Apr. 2026
  • That is what a toll booth looks like.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • But all those past shifts took their toll.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
  • And that's had a toll on the race.
    — ABC News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • This first day back took a toll on him.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The fine could be waived, but not the toll.
    — Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 6 Feb. 2026
  • That means tolls are not ruled out down the road.
    — Justin Fishel, ABC News, 18 June 2026
  • Does Iran have the right to charge toll?
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Gael, in what ways did the movie take a toll on you?
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026
  • This is taking a huge toll on us.
    — Peter D'oench, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • And above all, the toll is human.
    — Divya Upadhyay, STAT, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The years never took their toll on my mum.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026
  • By that time, the toll was notable.
    — Pien Huang, NPR, 18 May 2026
  • The straits need to be open without tolls.
    — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 24 May 2026
  • People tell me that took a hard toll on her.
    — Akash Kapur, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
  • Charging a toll will be the least of it.
    — CBS News, 21 June 2026
  • News how his costume took a toll on his body.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
  • The 465 hits over five years took a toll.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • After that, tolls will be split.
    — Bill Koenig, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • But the years and the weather took their toll.
    — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • That means a $2 toll would cost $4 to pay by mail.
    — Alex Driggars, Austin American Statesman, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Whether prices are high or low, the tolls are getting paid.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • There is no doubt that his father's death took a toll on him.
    — Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
  • If Bing had only paid that toll.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026
  • And when that starts to dawn on you, the mental toll of that is hard.
    — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Which means the island craves eight more souls, one for each bell toll.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 17 June 2026
  • But 39 episodes a season took its toll.
    — Mo Rocca, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The stress of it all took a physical toll.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026
  • That toll could grow, says Laxminarayan.
    — NPR, 15 Oct. 2025

toll

2 of 2 verb
  • The time had not yet come, and the bell was not ready to toll.
    — USA Today, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The bells in the church nearby are tolling.
    — Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The bell tolled again on Sunday.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • One tolled for the lives lost when the towers collapsed.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • At 71, there is only so much strength left in his back to yank the rope that tolls.
    — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
  • The board also suggested tolling all lanes.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • This is the track that has been pushing up so that the Iranians can toll.
    — ABC News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The church once again will be able to toll the bell for funerals and special services.
    — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • In a few hours, bells at houses of worship would toll for exactly one minute at exactly noon.
    — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Bells would toll to let the community know that something special had happened.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 4 June 2020
  • There was a Catholic Church where the bell tolled regularly and where the doors were always wide open.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The bell tolled for me, the young angler, and obediently my pals and I wrapped it up, the fishing was over.
    — Darrell Kunitomi, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Each year, bells are tolled in memory of the crew at the Detroit's Mariners Church.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Contracts for all players opting out will toll to the 2021 season.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Some might accuse me of prematurely tolling Twitter’s death knell.
    — J.p. Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
  • As the mass started, a priest lit incense in front of the slain officer’s portrait as a bell tolled and an organist played.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Minute guns will be fired in Hyde Park and Big Ben will toll throughout the procession.
    — Michael Wright, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
  • James’ contract, which includes $27 million guaranteed, will toll ahead one year.
    — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 3 Aug. 2020
  • While in Orheiul Vechi, ancient stone churches cling to the rock face—their bells tolling hours that feel older than the winding road below.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Bells tolled through the misty Alpine mountain valley as hundreds of priests walked two by two to the altar under a tent to start the service and then again at the end.
    — Jamey Keaten, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • In Gozo, residents peacefully sweep their doorsteps while church bells toll distantly in the background.
    — AFAR Media, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The software engineer from the Dallas-Fort Worth area lost his first boxing match at the end of the first round before the bell could toll.
    — Zoe Collins Rath, Austin American Statesman, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Big Ben, Britain’s iconic bell located above the country’s parliament, will toll as the procession makes its way.
    — Stu Woo and Trefor Moss, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Big Ben, the iconic bell located above Britain’s Parliament, will toll as the procession makes its way.
    — Gareth Vipers, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Big Ben will again toll on Monday at one-minute intervals as a huge procession departs after the state funeral service.
    — Sean Nevin, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Ouija boards were enshrined in glass cases throughout the room; periodically, a small silver bell tolled without warning, moving as though on its own.
    — Alex Barasch, New Yorker, 11 May 2026
  • Big Ben, Britain’s iconic bell located above the country’s Parliament, will toll as the procession makes its way.
    — WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Hoping to boost its health care workers’ morale, local leaders asked the houses of worship to toll their bells each day at noon for eight days of appreciation in August.
    — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
  • But the bell started tolling in 2019, during Mayor Catherine Pugh’s book scandal.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Indonesia’s neighbors have responded differently to the idea of tolling the Strait of Malacca.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026

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