to toll
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- verb
- /toʊl/
- Somewhere in the night, a bell tolls the hour.
- toll the bell
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Watch on YouTubeSo the bell is tolling for someone else right now, but sooner or later is going to toll for myself, for you and me.
- So the bell is tolling for someone else right now, but sooner or later is going to toll for myself, for you and me.
- But For Whom the Bell Tolls is a really great book.
- And so that is for whom the Bell Curve tolls.
Examples
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John Donne warned his parishioners, "never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
Academic text (2006) -
As Vatican Hill emerged from the dark, the new bell began to toll.
Fiction book (1998) -
If this service ends peacefully, the cathedral bells begin to toll, and you will know I have failed.
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So just remember, no man is an island, and the bell tolled for all of us yesterday.
Blog text (12) -
Somewhere close by, a church bell tolled the hour.
Fiction book (1998) -
Outside, he could hear the bell of the church tolling the twelve strokes of midnight.
Fiction book (1994) -
The bell now tolls from Memorial Church as the parade of dignitaries starts down the central aisle.
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The Sultana departed Cairo on the morning of April 15th, draped in black, its flag at half-staff, tolling its bell.
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As the sun set, the church bells began to toll slowly, signaling the end of the day.
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At the memorial service, a bell began to toll solemnly as each name was read aloud.
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
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Etymology
Toll as a verb, meaning to ring a bell slowly, comes from the same old word for 'to strike', so to toll a bell is to make that slow, solemn sound that often marks a death or important moment.