How to Use parking meter in a Sentence

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• The photo showed that her side of the parking meter still had an hour and 40 minutes left.
  — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• Parks where there once were paint lines and parking meters.
  — Wired, 9 Sep. 2019
• Our parking meter system should go the way of town hall fisticuffs.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• But some users are leaving them locked to street signs, poles and even parking meters.
  — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 31 May 2018
• In August, Cincinnati's parking meter rates will go up for the third time in three years.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 11 July 2018
• The two got pretty cozy while paying the parking meter.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 15 May 2020
• Signs will be attached to posts, poles and parking meters to note the restrictions.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• The glitch has affected both parking meters and wrestling video games.
  — Jazmin Goodwin, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2020
• The city will return to 50 percent of the parking meter funds in following years.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2021
• And this is an argument for parking meters that goes back decades.
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 14 June 2023
• Chicago raised parking meter rates and put meters on streets that didn’t have them.
  — Mary Williams Walsh, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• With parking meters and traffic enforcement cops off the streets (no more towing!), the city will need new ways to raise funds.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 21 May 2018
• Some sat on the ground, others ran back-and-forth from parking meters to add time, but all were excited to get their hands on Swift merch.
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• Now, though, the city has a way to make things fair for everyone: a parking meter for prostitutes .
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2011
• Spots along the parkways would be marked with numbers on the pavement, rather than ugly parking meters or posts.
  — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2018
• The city cycles about $3 billion a year through Wells Fargo — all the revenue the city receives, even from parking meters.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 14 May 2018
• At least deGrom lasted longer than Corey Kluber, who didn’t even need change for the parking meter.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 7 June 2023
• The first time someone pitched the idea of parking meters in Milwaukee, Milwaukee chased them out of town.
  — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2017
• More changes to parking meters, after testing higher prices in the Seaport and Back Bay?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• On the plus side, imagine life in the future on a bigger, wider sidewalk, one without parking meters.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2017
• Daley cost the city millions of dollars between the Chicago Skyway sale and the parking meter sale.
  — Daily Southtown, 8 June 2018
• The car struck a parking meter and slammed into a wall before flipping over, according to the report.
  — Jordan McPherson, miamiherald, 31 Jan. 2018
• To make sure her parking meter didn't run out of time, Kennedy set an alarm on her phone that would go off every two hours to remind her to put more money in.
  — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• That is the current parking meter rate in downtown Evanston.
  — Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Another thing on her list is reminding me to pay the parking meter.
  — Alyssa Shelasky, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2022
• One Wesson staffer, who happened to be Gabay’s brother-in-law, worked on a plan to tap the city’s parking meter funds — an idea that was later abandoned.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
• Scroll through the slideshow above for everything from Post Office to parking meter info.
  — Priscilla Aguirre, ExpressNews.com, 23 Dec. 2020
• The sidewalk is narrow and cluttered—with humans on foot, trees, parking meters, and those dang scooters strewn about.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 4 June 2018
• The parking permit is valid at any parking meter within city limits and works from the date of purchase until Oct. 31.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
• When cities first started installing parking meters, officials saw them as a parking management tool.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024