TURNPIKE in a Sentence

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1. A toll road, also known as a toll way or turnpike, is a road for which a driver pays a fee for use.
2. Were you to give him a knife, and to turn him loose on a turnpike, he would cut your throat for two kopecks.
3. The sky was completely covered with clouds, and the dusty turnpike beginning to be sprinkled with drops of rain.
4. Meanwhile, Chichikov, seated in his britchka and bowling along the turnpike, was feeling greatly pleased with himself.
5. The turnpike lamp was a blur, quite out of the lamp's usual place apparently, and its rays looked solid substance on the fog.

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 Meanings and Examples of TURNPIKE
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turnpike
 n.  toll highway; an expressway on which tolls are collected
Classic Sentence:
1  Meanwhile, Chichikov, seated in his britchka and bowling along the turnpike, was feeling greatly pleased with himself.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  The sky was completely covered with clouds, and the dusty turnpike beginning to be sprinkled with drops of rain.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
3  Were you to give him a knife, and to turn him loose on a turnpike, he would cut your throat for two kopecks.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
4  The turnpike lamp was a blur, quite out of the lamp's usual place apparently, and its rays looked solid substance on the fog.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV
5  But his greatest trials were in the churchyard, which had the appearance of a primeval forest, with a kind of small ecclesiastical wash-house on one side, and a turnpike gate on the other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXI
6  As John Dawkins objected to their entering London before nightfall, it was nearly eleven o'clock when they reached the turnpike at Islington.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  He was likewise furnished with a felt hat well garnished with turnpike tickets; and a carter's whip.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
Example Sentence:
1  A toll road, also known as a toll way or turnpike, is a road for which a driver pays a fee for use.