Examples of tollbooth in a Sentence
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There’s the small toy car and purple tollbooth.
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Isaac Fitzgerald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2021
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
Sonny’s body riddled with bullets at a tollbooth.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2022
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
Weisberg was unclear what had happened at the tollbooth.
—Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Apr. 2022
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
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Isaac Fitzgerald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2021
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
Sonny’s body riddled with bullets at a tollbooth.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2022
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
Weisberg was unclear what had happened at the tollbooth.
—Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Apr. 2022
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
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English tolbothe, tollbothe tollbooth, town hall, jail, from tol, toll toll + bothe booth
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of tollbooth was
in the 14th century
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“Tollbooth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tollbooth. Accessed 10 Dec. 2023.
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tollbooth
noun
toll·booth
ˈtōl-ˌbüth 
: a booth where tolls are paid
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