Example Sentences

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In the Outer Banks, deputies have ticketed four people who tried to get around the checkpoints and turned around about three dozen who tried to cross the Currituck Sound by boat.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2020

The police have ticketed bike riders on the Upper East Side in somewhat greater numbers this summer than over a similar period last year, according to reports.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2010

School officials have ticketed the interest from $43 million for student aid, and have available the interest from an additional $30 million from the endowment.

From Time Magazine Archive

To date, environmental control officers have ticketed 400 vehicles�most of them heavy trucks�for exceeding legal sound barriers of 78 decibels for a car, 84 for a motorcycle and 90 for a truck.

From Time Magazine Archive

From appearances and manners one would have ticketed me as a Conscientious Objector.

From One Young Man The simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the western front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk. by Hodder-Williams, J. E. (John Ernest)