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Use "turnpikes" in a sentence
"We were stopped at least three times at barriers or gates, here called turnpikes, to pay a duty or toll which, however small, as being generally paid in their copper coinage, in the end amounted to some shillings."
"The turnpikes were a vital avenue of trade and settlement in the years before the Civil War and important for logistics and troop movements during the war."
""That's all the kind of turnpikes your mamma knew any thing about, I reckon," said Miss Fortune, in a tone that conveyed the notion that Mrs. Montgomery's education had been very incomplete."