Tollbooth is an English word with synonyms like tolbooth or tollhouse. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tollbooth meaning
- (In this sense usually spelt tolbooth) The traditional municipal building of a Scottish town or burgh, usually including a meeting-hall, court, prison and (eponymically) a place for the receipt of taxes, duties and fines.
- Alternative spelling of toll booth.
Using Tollbooth
- The main meaning on this page is: (In this sense usually spelt tolbooth) The traditional municipal building of a Scottish town or burgh, usually including a meeting-hall, court, prison and (eponymically) a place for the receipt of taxes, duties and fines. | Alternative spelling of toll booth.
- Useful related words include: tolbooth, tollhouse, booth, cubicle.
Context around Tollbooth
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tollbooth
- In this selection, "tollbooth" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, phantom, street and lamarr stand out and add context to how "tollbooth" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include around a tollbooth on a and kirkcaldy s tollbooth street closed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tollbooth" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tollbooth
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Wheatsheaf Inn on Kirkcaldy’s Tollbooth Street closed in December. (11 words)
Protesters also gathered around a tollbooth on a French motorway on Saturday causing huge queues of vehicles and long delays. (20 words)
Once through the tollbooth, Lamarr's villains attack the fake town populated with dummies, which are boobytrapped with dynamite bombs. (20 words)
It has applied its magic to creating an entirely new production of the legendary 1961 children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth. (21 words)
Protesters also gathered around a tollbooth on a French motorway on Saturday causing huge queues of vehicles and long delays. (20 words)
Once through the tollbooth, Lamarr's villains attack the fake town populated with dummies, which are boobytrapped with dynamite bombs. (20 words)
Example sentences (4)
The Wheatsheaf Inn on Kirkcaldy’s Tollbooth Street closed in December.
It has applied its magic to creating an entirely new production of the legendary 1961 children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth.
Protesters also gathered around a tollbooth on a French motorway on Saturday causing huge queues of vehicles and long delays.
Once through the tollbooth, Lamarr's villains attack the fake town populated with dummies, which are boobytrapped with dynamite bombs.