tolled

Meaning

of Toll

Examples

His death which happened in his berth, At forty-odd befell: They went and told the sexton, and The sexton tolled the bell. Thomas Hood

I couldn't help it. I tried to keep it down but it just flooded through all my quiet spaces. It was a message more than a feeling, a message that tolled like a bell: change, change, change. Junot Diaz

The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again. Barbara Tuchman

Also, newer toll facilities (like the tolled section of I-376, which was built in the early 1990s) must conform to Interstate standards. Source: Internet

A portable fire department bell is tolled at the conclusion of the ceremony. Source: Internet

And the bell of Great St Mary tolled 76 times, once for each year of Prof Hawking's life, as his coffin arrived. Source: Internet

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