Example Sentences

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The Bay Area Rapid Transit’s board of directors voted Thursday to immediately reinstate the mask mandate on all trains and in stations beyond ticket gates.

From Washington Times • Jul. 29, 2022

And remember that museum shops typically offer an alternative entrance or one outside the ticket gates, so there’s no need to buy admission.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2021

My ticket was obviously a forgery, I was the fall-guy of an admittedly amusing ruse and I was surely about to set off an alarm at the ticket gates.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2021

Tap-and-go handsets may also allow for other transactions, such as those at vending machines, parking meters and transit ticket gates, Forrester Research Inc. analyst Thomas Husson wrote in a March 31 report.

From BusinessWeek • Apr. 4, 2011

One does not throw waste paper out of a carriage window, nor take trivial short cuts, nor walk on the grass, nor attempt to pass through ticket gates before the proper time.

From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Wood, Eric Fisher