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How to use the word big-ticket in a Sentence?

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I was told by the Lottery people that, now you’re going to be that mecca, you sold a big ticket. You’re going to be the place to go. So far, it’s holding true.

Paul Wondra

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tick is the name that he received from the football team. Big Ticket, meaning ticket out of St. Louis, basically.

Nekia Dodd

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Expectations... weakened further with consumers citing rising prices, especially at the gas pump, and the war in Ukraine as factors, meanwhile, purchasing intentions for big-ticket items like automobiles have softened somewhat over the past few months as expectations for interest rates have risen.

Lynn Franco

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We need to end the circular firing squad and get to work. Our biggest obstacle to success is members of our own Democratic Party, we have one or two senators holding up big ticket items that we need to pass. We have a handful of the far left in the House who have never done anything acting like they dictate the agenda and the timeline for bills passing.

Colin Strother

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Best Buy Buy has developed a strong delivery and assembly business for big-ticket items such as TVs and appliances, grills and outdoor furniture [ are ] a nicely adjacent category.

Seth Basham

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We still eat out or [ do ] takeout once a week to support local businesses, but are not looking for any other big ticket activities such as vacations through the summer of next year.

Karen Jones

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are going to aggressively target the constituencies with big-ticket candidates from the ruling camp.

Win Htein

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For a rental property I'd estimate 2% of the home's value per year on maintenance. So for a $200,000 house, expect to pay $4,000 per year on ‘stuff’ that the landlord pays for. That could include irregular big ticket items like replacing a deck, carpet or water heater.

Rob Aeschbach

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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