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A booth on a toll road or toll bridge where the toll is collected.
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(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.
Examples of tollbooth in a Sentence
The clock tower in the background belongs to the old tollbooth.
The book opens when main character Milo, a small boy who struggles with boredom, discovers a magical tollbooth in his room.
Such, however, as were most distinguished by their station or office, it was thought proper to secure in the tollbooth prison.
The clock tower in the background belongs to the old Tollbooth.
The Phantom Tollbooth's immense popularity over the years has resulted in several people adapting the story.
Milo gets into a toy car and decides to drive through the tollbooth, which transports him to another world.
After bidding his new friends goodbye, the tollbooth returns and Milo drives through it again to return to his room.
On the following day, the tollbooth disappears and Milo notices a rekindled interest in his own life and world.
The Phantom Tollbooth features a widely varied cast of interesting characters, but Milo has only two steady companions throughout the majority of the book.
Milo is a clever, middle-school-aged boy and The Phantom Tollbooth's primary character.
The Phantom Tollbooth lends itself well to homeschool assignments, fun discussion questions, book clubs, and reading together.
The Phantom Tollbooth is a classic and worth sharing with kids of any age.
The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norman Juster (the author of The Phantom Tollbooth) is the 2006 Caldecott Award winner.
Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth is one of the best-loved children's chapter books of all time and is treasured by both kids and adults worldwide.