tollbooth

noun

toll·booth ˈtōl-ˌbüth

: a booth (as on a highway or bridge) where tolls are paid

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Admittedly, provincial elites and warlords treated crossings like personal tollbooths. —

George Gavrilis, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015 Photo: Courtesy Larkin Square Buffalo, which stands at the western end of the Erie Canal, once served as a sort of industrial tollbooth between the East Coast and the Midwest and between the U.S. and Canada. —

Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Sep. 2024 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 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 See all Example Sentences for tollbooth