Sentence examples for earn passage for from inspiring English sources

There are anecdotes about seasickness and travails aboard ocean liners, and of first meetings on Ellis Island between children and their fathers, who had come to America in advance to get settled and earn passage for their families.

I know he felt the pressure to find work right away and earn passage for his wife, Rose, because in those postcards that I carried he is accounting for every few dollars he sends her, promising a ticket by July, pleading with her to "be cheerful, be calm".

To earn passage to bring his family across the ocean, he candled eggs in the Bronx, checking for dark spots.

I never did earn passage on that Boat to Stardom.

Three kids with dollar bills sewn secretly into their jeans plan on hopping boxcars and riding the rails right up the American border, and they must earn their passage into California by volunteering as drug mules for heroin gangs.

The losers of the game will have a second chance as their reward for finishing in the top four, while the winners will earn direct passage to, and home advantage in, the major semi finals in a fortnight.

He wondered if we could earn our passage out to the Antipodes as oarsmen on a quinquereme.

Fanning's win means he earns direct passage into the third round of the event.

Mix it all together and any visiting side making the last four will have fully earned their passage.

For example, high school students received the full amount earned for passing Regents exams, but half of the amount earned for attendance, credits earned and graduation.

Surgeons earn more for every procedure.