high-ticket
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Amazon has steadily grown as it funneled cash into its online business, adding new categories of goods, including high-ticket items such as luxury handbags and cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Stocks such as Harley haven’t recovered as much as others since April’s market lows, kept down by affordability worries—buying a high-ticket item in a time of dogged inflation and higher interest rates.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
Another high-ticket item was a beehive hairpiece worn by British singer Amy Winehouse for a 2007 music video You Know I'm No Good, from her last album Back To Black.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2023
In buying a majority stake in the powerhouse Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency, François-Henri Pinault showed that high-ticket M.&A. is a game that more than one French luxury billionaire can play.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
She told a dispatcher that two people who had a “fake receipt” on a cellphone were “grabbing high-ticket merchandise” and preparing to leave, which she said was a “common fraud.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
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