How to Use tollbooth in a Sentence

tollbooth

noun
  • Again, none of our tollbooths are staffed all hours, year-round.
    — Dave Boucher, Freep.com, 18 July 2025
  • Staffed tollbooths have dwindled with the advent of cashless tolls.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2016
  • That swap completely changes how the web makes money — from a billboard to a tollbooth.
    — Renana Ashkenazi, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • The bus curves to the west and touches down on the right edge of the multilane approach to the tollbooths.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The entrance will feature all-electronic tolling, so there will be no tollbooths.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun-Sentinel.com, 21 June 2018
  • Perhaps Iran will have a tollbooth at the Strait of Hormuz.
    — Jonathan Tirone, Bloomberg, 16 Apr. 2026
  • But one answer that’s already collecting money looks a lot like a tollbooth.
    — Renana Ashkenazi, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Or shift your gaze and register, instead, the half-dozen or so transmission towers to the north of the tollbooths.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2017
  • On the main highway north to Montreal were a pair of what looked like tollbooths, adorned with flags stitched with a big red leaf or stars and stripes.
    — Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
  • When the coronavirus crisis began, she was sent back to the road system but not allowed into the tollbooth.
    — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Sonny gets his comeuppance when he is bloodied in a battlefield’s worth of machine-gun fire while trapped in his car at a tollbooth.
    — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
  • Milo passes through the tollbooth in his small pretend car and finds himself in the Lands Beyond.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The tollbooth is replacing the billboard — and the most valuable real estate online is shifting with it.
    — Renana Ashkenazi, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • This would add some friction to the flow of commerce into a metropolis, but those roads are already teeming with tollbooths and weigh stations.
    — Steven Johnson, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2002
  • The state was looking for a friendlier image to project to visitors whose first contact with Florida is the tollbooth.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Some key highway connections and tollbooths might not be completed until the second half of 2020.
    — Christopher R. O'Dea, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • To put it bluntly, there are cameras nearly everywhere—on roads, on tollbooths, on homes and other dwellings, and even on people through their iPhones and smartphones.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 16 June 2018
  • The two prison guards who died in the attack last month, at a highway tollbooth about 85 miles northwest of Paris, were the first to be killed in the line of duty in 32 years.
    — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • Opponents worry allowing virtual tollbooths on the internet will lead to higher costs for consumers.
    — By Tom Hudson, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Today, license plate scanners are commonly used on highways as a replacement for tollbooths, but law enforcement use of the devices has been a source of public concern for years.
    — Ivy Scott, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • But many roads have tolls; some countries, such as Portugal, use automatic, cashless toll systems — but there is often a tollbooth option to pay with cash or a credit card.
    — Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
  • Mounted on police cruisers, tow trucks, tollbooths, and elsewhere, license-plate readers are capable of snapping photos of thousands of license plates every hour.
    — Pete Bigelow, Car and Driver, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The fireplace is all that remains of the paymaster's tollbooth of the old Bluestone Quarry of the early 20th century.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The film begins with a gripping opening sequence, as tollbooth collector Maya (Tara Basro) is attacked by a golok-wielding stranger.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Tollbooth tells the story of Milo, who enters a fantastical land through a magical tollbooth that mysteriously appears in his room.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The adventure story of a bored child who is transformed upon entering a magic tollbooth, it was written by Feiffer's friend, Norton Juster.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Unrelated protests by truck drivers over fuel tax hikes worsened the disruptions, as trucks were used to block highways and tollbooths, slowing traffic to a crawl in places such as Normandy and the Toulouse region.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The real world is the mind-blowingly elaborate fiction of jobs, cellphones, forks, tollbooths, Hulu passwords, and dental appointments that engulfs us every day and consumes us completely.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Authorities used video footage from the tollbooths that Dameron drove through on the morning of the wreck as evidence that Dameron had been speeding before rear-ending the young family’s 2001 Nissan Maxima.
    — Bianca Padró Ocasio, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 July 2017
  • Immediately after passing the town’s tollbooth, signs advertising gold dealers and mining equipment—in both English and Chinese—crowd the streets, vastly outnumbering the fading billboards for cocoa fertilizer.
    — Marisa Schwartz Taylor, National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2018

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