How to Use tollbooth in a Sentence

tollbooth

noun

• 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
• 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
• There are no tollbooths, no cameras, not even a signpost.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
• Truck drivers planned to blockade roads and tollbooths.
  — Heather Connolly, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2019
• Staffed tollbooths have dwindled with the advent of cashless tolls.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2016
• 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
• Milo passes through the tollbooth in his small pretend car and finds himself in the Lands Beyond.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
• Manned tollbooths Lanes with automated coin bins and E-Z Pass-only have been in use for years.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 26 Apr. 2020
• The entrance will feature all-electronic tolling, so there will be no tollbooths.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun-Sentinel.com, 21 June 2018
• 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
• 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 tollbooths that were built 30 years ago will remain but starting Jan. 1, motorists will be allowed to drive through without paying a toll.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• The tollbooths that were built 30 years ago will remain, but starting Jan. 1, motorists will be allowed to drive through without paying a toll.
  — USA TODAY, 27 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
• 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
• 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
• Well, one thing has changed: as many states eliminate tolls on highways, some children may never encounter a real tollbooth.
  — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• When Pippi, a stripper on the run, comes between a Dr. Phil-loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth-collector husband, a storm begins to brew.
  — Zakiya McCummings, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Opponents worry allowing virtual tollbooths on the internet will lead to higher costs for consumers.
  — By Tom Hudson, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2017
• The group relies on a vast network of informers: watchmen, storekeepers, villagers, tollbooth operators.
  — Niharika Mandhana, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2017
• Protesters have smashed storefronts of businesses seen as sympathetic to China, torched tollbooths, shut down a major tunnel and engaged in pitched battles with police, countering tear gas volleys and water cannons with torrents of gasoline bombs.
  — Eileen Ng, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024