one-way ticket
Example Sentences
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Personal discontent is a one-way ticket to intellectual automation.
From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026
When I first flew on a one-way ticket to Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 1993, I arrived with no job, no contacts and no Thai beyond a few phrases acquired from a military language instruction cassette.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
On Saturday evening, the Algerian national went to the Paris-Charles de Gaulle international airport with a one-way ticket to Algeria.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Teoscar Hernández is a hack in right field, Michael Conforto needs a one-way ticket to the waiver wire and the Dodgers are a better team with Mookie Betts in right field.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2025
She would hide them beneath her underwear until she could figure out a better place, and tomorrow she would call the bus station and ask the price of a one-way ticket to San Francisco.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
