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Example sentences for "tollgate"

Lexicographically close words:
tollars; tolle; tolled; tollerable; tollere; tolling; tollis; tollit; tolls; tolt
  1. Shortly after leaving the village of the tollgate I came to a beautiful valley.

  2. Passing through a tollgate I found myself in a kind of suburb consisting of a few cottages.

  3. Y'see, ever'body reecollects that nasty thing you said down to the tollgate the night o' the weddin'.

  4. Down at the tollgate Jim Hardesty said to the crowd the day after his departure for Chicago: "He's made a fizzle uv it, boys.

  5. I see in a Chicago paper that a feller named Dudley Sherrod wuz married t'other day," remarked Postmaster Hardesty to Parson Marks while the latter was waiting for his mail at the tollgate a few days later.

  6. A day or so later the word was carried to the tollgate by Charlie Spangler that Justine Sherrod was "sick-a-bed" and it "looked as though she was liable to have lung fever.

  7. Seems like Jake an' Laz met 'Gene down to the tollgate an' wuz a wonderin' how you wuz gittin' along this cold spell.

  8. Later in the afternoon Mr. Marks drove back to the tollgate and asked Hardesty if he had kept the paper containing the notice of the wedding in Chicago.

  9. He whupped the daylights out'n Jake Smalley an' Laz Dunbar down to the tollgate day 'fore yest'day.

  10. She also opened her eyes at our question, and said the distance to the tollgate was eight miles.

  11. The distance to the tollgate was only two miles, and while the boy made ready the team to take us over, the honest, intelligent farmer gave us a few sketches from his life history.

  12. But there's that tollgate and shanty on the other road; if we could only make that, we'd find shelter.

  13. An' I took my sunbonnet, an' I went down the mountain to the tollgate and asked Mr. Cole.

  14. At a tollgate the aide drew rein, leaned from his saddle, and struck against the door with a pistol butt.

  15. The tollgate keeper, old and crippled, sat on the porch beside a wooden bucket of well-water.

  16. The doctor would and did, and after he had prescribed for the tollgate keeper a two hours' nap every day and not to get too excited over war news, Tom read him Allan's letter, and they got into a hot discussion of the next battle.

  17. The tollgate keeper hobbled back to his chair, and Sairy returned to her dinner.

  18. It carried him back to the tollgate and to the log schoolhouse by Thunder Run.

  19. He was not kin to the tollgate keepers, but he had lived long with them and was very fond of both.

  20. Sad their faces as they listen To the story of the murder Of the aged Tollgate Keeper, Barnice White of Colebrook River, On that fearful night of horror, In the year of eighteen fifty.

  21. When the aged Tollgate Keeper, Known to all as Uncle Barnice, Found his money had been stolen, He at once accused Manassa And his lazy, wayward comrades, Saying they were thieves and robbers.

  22. Later Henry won a "pardon" When 'twas found he only acted As a helper in the murder Of the aged Tollgate Keeper, And he died a helpless beggar In the Farmington red Town House.

  23. I have proofs that arsenic was in the sugar, that the sugar was sold by the copartnership of Tollgate & Twitters, that one if not both of said firm knew of this rather unpleasant adulteration.

  24. And Tollgate was a Sunday-school superintendent.

  25. When the copartnership of Tollgate & Twitters engaged in their corner in sugar, and robbed the poor of the luxuries of a free breakfast-table, our society determined to foil you.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tollgate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    archway; bulkhead; door; doorpost; doorway; gate; gatepost; gateway; hatch; lintel; porch; portal; postern; pylon; scuttle; stile; threshold; tollgate; trap; turnpike; turnstile