How to Use meal ticket in a Sentence

meal ticket

noun

• We bought three meal tickets at the fair.
• An advanced degree was his meal ticket.
• Who’s in it for the right reasons and who’s just looking for a meal ticket to the U.S.?
  — cleveland, 20 Mar. 2020
• The young ones saw me as a meal ticket, and the older men saw me as their Lolita.
  — Jennifer Vally, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• Still, Chubb is this team’s meal ticket on offense for the first three months of the season.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2022
• And now he’s being asked to do it without his meal ticket.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2022
• Defense has been the meal ticket this season for the Cyclones.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2022
• Robert Wagner's the guy who pays him … that's his meal ticket.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2018
• The Cohen-Cuomo tape makes clear Daniel claim is dead and with it Avenati’s [sic] meal ticket.
  — Brooke Singman, Fox News, 27 July 2018
• Tight ends are meal tickets in crunch time A Batman always needs his Robin in a passing league.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• Your meal ticket also includes one drink of your choice.
  — Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023
• Archie shows up just then to claim his sister—otherwise known as his meal ticket.
  — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 11 Dec. 2017
• One wall is covered with meal tickets that customers have already paid for, hoping to help the next person in need.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2024
• Each student received a meal ticket to redeem at a concession stand, and the school district paid for an ice cream truck to stop by as kids left, arms full.
  — Slade Rand, courant.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• Smith could have used a few more Mo-Mo’s in her life — people who saw her more as a person and less as a meal ticket or projection of their own desires.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2023
• Each $10 ticket includes meal ticket, trick-or-treat bag, candy, wizard stickers, and a wand and donut.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2019
• Weigh all that against putting him on the field when left tackle Trent Williams may or may not be there, and a youthful Rams player hoping to make a name for himself gets a clean shot at the 49ers’ meal ticket.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2024
• One America News Network just had its last major meal ticket ripped up.
  — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 22 July 2022
• Said meal ticket is having trouble sleeping and insists to Kate that she's being followed.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• Is that inherited from this notion that a male’s attention was your meal ticket and your survival?
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 3 Nov. 2017
• His meal ticket of an instrument, though, sets him apart as much as his attraction to classic arrangements does.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
• One dad in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, said he's seen parents become convinced these kids are their meal tickets and point fingers at the coach if the kid struggles.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2024
• Rosetta, who had worked at our hospital for more than 20 years, found a way to provide meal tickets for a visiting family who couldn’t afford food.
  — Neil Prose, STAT, 5 Feb. 2020
• Teri Terrific, as she was known among friends, was much maligned in the film industry as a harpy who exploited Ms. Shields and turned her into an unprotesting meal ticket.
  — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
• The Mavs got surprisingly little from their meal ticket, Doncic, in the first half as he was hit with his third foul and a technical late in the second quarter after scoring just seven points.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2021
• Meanwhile, in 2015, Orla meets her meal ticket when a mysterious new roommate, Floss, pursues celebrity and convinces the writer to help her rise to stardom.
  — Heather Scott Partington, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2020
• But the main reason Bannon won’t cross Trump is not terribly complicated: there’s nothing in it for Bannon to rage against Trump, his meal ticket and most meaningful conduit to power.
  — Peter Hamby, The Hive, 4 Dec. 2017
• The victim, played by a beguiling and gallant Christopher Plummer, recently cut out many of his ne’er-do-well family members who’ve profited off him for years, giving them all the reason to see their meal ticket dead.
  — Garrett Mitchell, Arizona Republic, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2019
• The victim, played by a beguiling and gallant Christopher Plummer, recently cut out many of his ne'er-do-well family members who've profited off him for years, giving them all the reason to see their meal ticket dead.
  — Garrett Mitchell, azcentral, 25 Nov. 2019
• Football can become a meal ticket as far as getting a quality education.
  — Emmett Hall, Sun Sentinel, 17 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024