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How to use ticker in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Ticker means one who makes a tick mark. Example: “The ticker was showing an increased rate of flow.”

Examples of ticker by meaning

nounA measuring or reporting device, particularly one which makes a ticking sound as the measured events occur.

  • The ticker was showing an increased rate of flow.

nounA ticker tape, either the traditional paper kind or a scrolling message on a screen.

  • I checked the prices on the ticker one last time before placing the trade.
  • To my surprise, the ticker showed that the deal had already gone through.

nounA heart, especially a human one.

  • My ticker gave out and I had to go to the hospital for surgery.

nounA watch (timepiece).

  • A right nice ticker it was.2011, Maggie MacKeever, The Tyburn Waltz

nounA beer drinker who aims to try as many different beers as possible and keeps a record of all the beers they have drunk.

  • My weekday visit found a great mix of luncheoners, locals and real ale tickers.2006, Richard Stedman, The Football and Real Ale Guide 2006-07: Division 1, →ISBN, page 5
  • This book has not been written with the goal of pleasing beer geeks, tickers, fetishists, raters or advocates.2015, Max Bahnson, Prague: A Pisshead's Pub Guide, →ISBN, page 5
  • Today's tickers are equipped with smartphones with downloaded apps like Untappd.2019, Michael Ian Borer, Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and the Birth of a Local Scene, →ISBN, page 168

More sentences with ticker

  • They were joking that the stock ticker symbol for their company should be "SCAM".From the entry stock ticker symbol
  • Farnesworth smiled contentedly as he read the stock ticker; all was ducky on Wall Street.From the entry ducky
  • The astronauts were honored with a ticker tape parade when they returned to Earth.From the entry ticker-tape parade
  • My new cell phone has a news ticker feature.From the entry news ticker
  • Then, on March 2, China Pacific entered bankruptcy, and the ticker symbol was eventually changed to CHNAQ.2000 January 11, Ray Lewis, “Accidental Trader: A Ticker Symbol, Writ Much Larger”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles…. From the entry ticker symbol
  • Jay looked at a clock, then at a newscrawl on a building ticker.1997, Steve Perry, Ed Solomon, Men in Black, page 182. From the entry newscrawl
  • AOL is back as a ticker symbol and from here out, the excuses are gone for both companies.2009 December 10, Staci D. Kramer, “Welcome to the new AOL”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media…. From the entry ticker symbol
  • Midway in the announcement, the ticker was stopped.1941 August 18, LIFE, volume 11, number 7, page 77. From the entry newsticker
  • Supplementing the quotation tickers are the news tickers.1929, Alliston Cragg, Understanding the stock market: a handbook for the investor. From the entry news ticker
  • The ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF began trading at $40 a share under the ticker symbol “BITO” and finished the day up 5%.2021 October 19, Paul R. La Monica, “The first bitcoin ETF finally begins trading”, in CNN Business. From the entry ETF
  • Tout le monde is now saying these particular trans fats are so completely and utterly heinous for our tickers and arteries that lard is starting to look good again.2005 August 29, New York Observer. From the entry tout le monde
  • I swear, I don't know where you get all this swallowing the dictionary business!” - He himself never read anything but the ticker and the sporting news.1918, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 190, page 5. From the entry swallow the dictionary

Meaning of ticker

  1. noun One who makes a tick mark.
  2. noun A measuring or reporting device, particularly one which makes a ticking sound as the measured events occur.
  3. noun A ticker tape, either the traditional paper kind or a scrolling message on a screen.

Full definition of ticker

Questions about ticker in a sentence

How do you use ticker in a sentence?
Ticker is used as a noun. For example: “The ticker was showing an increased rate of flow.”
What is a short sentence with ticker?
“A right nice ticker it was.”
What does ticker mean?
Ticker means one who makes a tick mark.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ticker (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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