How to Use ticker tape in a Sentence

ticker tape

noun

• The words scrolled across his screen like a ticker tape of grief and mourning.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• Adding to the chaos, Wall Street office workers cheered the hard hats and tossed ticker tape from windows.
  — Joseph Barbato, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
• The parades are named for the strands of ticker tape that used to be showered down from office buildings.
  — Karen Matthews, Chron, 15 June 2021
• In the height of Cold War tensions, his face was splashed across front pages, and he was feted with a ticker tape parade on Wall Street.
  — Dallas News, 31 May 2022
• The parade is named for the strands of ticker tape that used to be showered down from nearby office buildings.
  — Ali Swenson, Twin Cities, 10 July 2019
• Straight girls and gay girls.’’ The parade is named for the strands of ticker tape that used to be showered down from nearby office buildings.
  — Ali Swenson, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
• And now the ticker tape and uh ... other confetti and such is beginning to flow from the windows and the crowd at our point is surging forward.
  — Bob Schieffer, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2017
• Start with dinner at the Stock Exchange, where businessmen once gathered to keep up with the latest prices via ticker tape.
  — Scott Craven, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2017
• The Mercedes garage emptied, as mechanics went to stand in the ticker tape and celebrate with Russell, who was on the podium for the second week in a row.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2022
• For the first time, a crowd at a retail brokerage could watch together as a facsimile of the stock ticker tape whizzed by in bright light.
  — Robert J. Shiller, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• Harrelson mused, the snow already coming down like ticker tape.
  — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• The first ticker tape parade was held in 1886 to celebrate the dedication of the Statue of Liberty.
  — Allen Kim and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN, 21 Apr. 2020
• Chants of the phrase rang out from the stands after the team’s championship victory against the Netherlands last month, and later throughout the Canyon of Heroes as the women were feted with a ticker tape parade.
  — Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2019
• In New York City, essential workers will be honored with a ticker tape parade Wednesday.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 7 July 2021
• Marcelo, Madrid’s serial winner of trophies who didn’t even play a minute of the final, was given the honor of lifting the trophy to a backdrop of fireworks and ticker tape.
  — Rob Harris and Steve Douglas, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2022
• Joan Hodges, Gil’s widow, rode with him up Broadway in an open convertible in October 1969, ticker tape swirling like snowfall.
  — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2021
• The big, huge, ticker tape news of the Fall 2019 menswear season is that for the for the first time in the history of runway fashion, the men’s shows finally rival the womenswear ones in terms of excitement, innovation, and artistry.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2019
• The annual dog and pony show that is the TV upfronts kicks off on Monday, but among the ticker tape cannons and smoke machines, this year’s bonanza also looks set to be shrouded in a cloud of confusion.
  — Lara O’Reilly, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• The stretch of lower Manhattan has long hosted ticker tape parades for world leaders, veterans and hometown sports stars.
  — Fox News, 10 July 2019
• And yet, in South Carolina, folks aren’t exactly planning ticker tape parades.
  — David Caraviello, ajc, 19 Nov. 2017
• The footage shown included a big sequence during a New York ticker tape parade, a horseback chase in a subway tunnel, a train sequence and Indy using his iconic wip to take on a dozen guns.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2022
• Under a cascade of ticker tape, my older brother howled a joyous caterwaul.
  — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• Bill de Blasio, New York’s mayor and another presidential hopeful, announced a ticker tape parade for the team to be held on July 10.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartzy, 7 July 2019
• The city used to more regularly hold ticker tape parades for returning heroes, astronauts, veterans and heads of state.
  — Laura Ly and Eric Levenson, CNN, 14 June 2021
• The ticker tape parade is a larger representation of that same desire to recognize those workers and their sacrifices.
  — Laura Ly and Eric Levenson, CNN, 14 June 2021
• That tradition has generally been abandoned because ticker tape, which was once used to relay stock quotes, is no longer needed in the age of electronic information.
  — Charles Passy, WSJ, 14 June 2021
• Today, New York City recognized essential workers for their heroic service during the pandemic with a ticker tape parade.
  — Nicolas Rapp, Fortune, 7 July 2021
• While the popular image of the end of World War I in November 1918 includes ticker tape parades and jubilant celebration, the reality was far different.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 July 2019
• The coming celebration likely won’t have any actual ticker tape, however.
  — Charles Passy, WSJ, 14 June 2021
• Since Connecticut’s budget machinations began last February, budget proposals have been flying around like ticker tape in a Broadway parade.
  — Red Jahncke, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024