Examples of ticker tape in a Sentence
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In the early days of hedge funds, so much trading was based on whim, instinct, and vaguely divinatory practices like tape reading, so called after the ticker tape used to transmit trades via telegraph.
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Tarpley Hitt, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
History of rolling the oak trees at Toomer's Corner
The tradition of covering Toomer's Corner in toilet paper has been an Auburn staple for decades, said to have begun when nearby drugstore, Toomer's Drugs, would throw ticker tape from telegraphs on powerlines when word was received of an away win.
—Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
This weekday web, laced together by telephone, ticker tape, elevator, subway, and commuter train, made the modern city make sense.
—Curbed, 4 Jan. 2023
At noon the next day, Baltimore paraded the Orioles through town for 100,000 screaming followers as ticker tape and confetti rained down on the caravan of antique cars carrying the players.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2023
Anyone interested in World War II will be fascinated by the extensive collection of artifacts (like the ticker tape with the happy news), photos, and video.
—Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2023
That has been true since the Giants rode down Montgomery Street under falling ticker tape on April 14, 1958, as hundreds of thousands turned out to welcome them and see the best player in baseball, Willie Mays.
—Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2023
Streets were papered with ticker tape, shredded phone books and tissue streamers.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2020
Brooks’s collection; interspersed with the images are short poems, sometimes just a line or two, that look like ticker tape from a ghostly world and read like messages in bottles cast out to sea by an emotionally marooned person with a surfeit of longing, hoping for love.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
Tarpley Hitt, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
History of rolling the oak trees at Toomer's Corner
The tradition of covering Toomer's Corner in toilet paper has been an Auburn staple for decades, said to have begun when nearby drugstore, Toomer's Drugs, would throw ticker tape from telegraphs on powerlines when word was received of an away win.
—Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
This weekday web, laced together by telephone, ticker tape, elevator, subway, and commuter train, made the modern city make sense.
—Curbed, 4 Jan. 2023
At noon the next day, Baltimore paraded the Orioles through town for 100,000 screaming followers as ticker tape and confetti rained down on the caravan of antique cars carrying the players.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2023
Anyone interested in World War II will be fascinated by the extensive collection of artifacts (like the ticker tape with the happy news), photos, and video.
—Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2023
That has been true since the Giants rode down Montgomery Street under falling ticker tape on April 14, 1958, as hundreds of thousands turned out to welcome them and see the best player in baseball, Willie Mays.
—Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2023
Streets were papered with ticker tape, shredded phone books and tissue streamers.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2020
Brooks’s collection; interspersed with the images are short poems, sometimes just a line or two, that look like ticker tape from a ghostly world and read like messages in bottles cast out to sea by an emotionally marooned person with a surfeit of longing, hoping for love.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
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“Ticker tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ticker%20tape. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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