Sentence examples for metro ticket from inspiring English sources

OBAMA'S ON THE (METRO) TICKET: Washington's subway system, the Metro, has extended its hours of operation and is bracing for some of the heaviest crowds since it opened in 1976.

A Paris Metro ticket stub is tucked in between the pages as a bookmark.

You buy them at 10 for €12.50 from Metro ticket machines, saving you 45c a journey compared with individual tickets.

But a few hundred metres away, hidden behind a large metro ticket booth, a camp has taken shape.

In 1945 the insurer, whose name has not been disclosed, paid his children 26 centimes--about the price of a metro ticket.

But first you need a ticket – and an understanding that, to travel on the RER (which isn't a Metro train) within the city, you need a Metro ticket.

Buy a carnet of 10 metro tickets to save on single journeys.

As we drew closer, it became clear that it was covered with notes – which made perfect sense: people often write messages to authors, and death is no obstacle to that – and Metro tickets, which made no sense at all.

According to Claude Ruiz Gilot Picassoo's illegitimate son by Françoise Gilot), who has assumed the name Picasso and represents Picasso's heirs, he kept "everything: letters, metro tickets, theatre and bullfight tickets".

I spend a lot of time wandering the peach and gold streets of Lyon, reading pretty much anything that has a word on it: street names, shops signs, club posters, metro tickets.

TAKE A RIDE To reach the ruins of Ostia (00 39 06 5635 2830), Rome's ancient harbour, take metro line B to Piramide, then transfer to the adjacent Stazione Porta San Paolo, from where it's a 25-minute train journey to Ostia Antica (metro tickets valid for whole journey).