How to Use meal ticket in a Sentence

meal ticket

noun
Definition of meal ticketnext
  • 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
  • There was also the shame of walking down the hall to claim his free meal tickets.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2024
  • 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
  • That prime placement on a popular search query is Bryan’s meal ticket.
    — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • 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
  • Money should be used to fund facilities that care for the elderly and the veterans, not outsiders looking for a free meal ticket and housing.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 May 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

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