Below you will find example sentences with "toll roads". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Toll Roads in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: toll
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 24 words

Words in this phrase

toll roads

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • toll can mean: A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending... Frequent word
  • roads can mean: plural of road Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

banks to toll roads and your 1× century most toll roads were taken 1× expensive french toll roads are 1× experiments with toll roads operated by 1× florida s toll roads are suspended 1× largely of toll roads except around 1× main early toll roads were usually 1× most expensive toll roads in the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

as of 1999 1× congress also decided 1× essentially if txdot 1× except for the 1× expect the 400 1× he told reporters 1×

Common sentence endings:

a government franchise 1× actual toll takers 1× become toll roads 1× by private companies 1× defeating he said 1× for road maintenance 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

road 5× good 4× autoroute 3× french 3× network 3× condition 3× main 2× private 2× companies 2× century 2× system 2× except 2×

Related phrases

death toll major roads toll road main roads national roads toll plaza

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around toll:

death toll 20× toll road 13× toll plaza 7×

Just before it in the phrase index:

toll road toll plaza told reuters told reporters told nbc told investigators

Just after it in the phrase index:

tom brady tom cruise tom hanks tom parker tom sandoval tom swift

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

toll road toll plaza

Same ending:

major roads main roads national roads

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "toll roads" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as banks to toll roads and your, century most toll roads were taken, road, good and autoroute stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with death toll, major roads, toll road, death toll, toll road and toll plaza, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with toll roads

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

If you want toll roads, stop using taxpayer money. (9 words)

Expect the 400 series highways to become toll roads. (9 words)

Some of the newer toll roads never had actual toll takers. (11 words)

Longer example sentences

We know we're digging into our pockets every time we get on a toll road in New Jersey, but when it comes to the most expensive toll roads in the nation, there is good news and bad news for New Jersey drivers. (43 words)

He said the tolling strategy is to only toll roads that are in fair or good condition but where the road is in poor condition, it will be a requirement to first rehabilitate the road to good condition prior to tolling. (41 words)

Roads A7 autoroute near Orange French autoroute network There are ~950,000 km of roads in France. citation The French motorway network or autoroute system consists largely of toll roads, except around large cities and in parts of the north. (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

Toll roads main Early toll roads were usually built by private companies under a government franchise.

Toll roads peaked in the mid 19th century, and by the turn of the twentieth century most toll roads were taken over by state highway departments.

Roads A7 autoroute near Orange French autoroute network There are ~950,000 km of roads in France. citation The French motorway network or autoroute system consists largely of toll roads, except around large cities and in parts of the north.

We know we're digging into our pockets every time we get on a toll road in New Jersey, but when it comes to the most expensive toll roads in the nation, there is good news and bad news for New Jersey drivers.

Some of the newer toll roads never had actual toll takers.

Congress also decided that it was too costly to either build toll-free Interstates parallel to these toll roads, or directly repay all the bondholders who financed these facilities and remove the tolls.

I-95 and Route 15 were originally toll roads ; they relied on a system of toll plazas at which all traffic stopped and paid fixed tolls.

West Coast freeways are generally free to users ("freeways", no toll charged per use), although since the 1990s there have been some small experiments with toll roads operated by private companies.

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As of 1999, eight roads connected the city to other main towns in the country, Cameroon, Chad and South Sudan ; of these, only the toll roads are paved.

Except for the several relatively good toll roads which connect major cities (all of them one-lane) roads are poorly maintained and subject to inclement weather, since only 10% of the roadways are tarred.

Toll roads have been a staple of the UK's road network for hundreds of years, with local authorities implementing them to reduce emissions, ease traffic congestion and generate funds for road maintenance.

He said the tolling strategy is to only toll roads that are in fair or good condition but where the road is in poor condition, it will be a requirement to first rehabilitate the road to good condition prior to tolling.

The same for many other security groups — from central banks to toll roads and your local library.

Essentially, if TxDOT reverses course and continues with removing toll roads, it is breaking an agreement made with the Houston region, Wiley said.

If you have an economic rationalist position, you'll end up with just toll roads, which will be self-defeating," he said.

If you want toll roads, stop using taxpayer money.

I never knew just how outrageously expensive French toll roads are.

Many of Florida’s toll roads are suspended, and several ports have closed.

Expect the 400 series highways to become toll roads.

He told reporters on Wednesday that toll roads could be in place by 2020.

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