How to Use one-way in a Sentence

one-way

adjective
  • For these, one-way fares cost $2.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The boat makes 32 one-way trips per day.
    — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
  • This isn’t a one-way export of ideas.
    — Yerik Aubakirov, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Fares are as low as $415 one-way.
    — Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Shopping carts are pushed along a one-way path.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Fair warning — that’s more of a one-way hack.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But the path to success isn’t a one-way street.
    — Jacqueline Jevtich, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Age-gap friendships aren’t just a one-way street.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The fare is $11 round-trip or $6 one-way.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Iran will still be able to launch missiles and one-way drones.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Win-lose feels like going the wrong way down a one-way street.
    — Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 8 May 2026
  • The one-way route takes about 60 minutes to walk.
    — Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Losing tooth enamel has long been a one-way street.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The price of a one-way flight on this route peaked at around $450 this week.
    — César Rodríguez, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Championing isn’t a one-way street.
    — Dr. Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The result on court was a repeat dose of one-way traffic.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Progress, to him, is a one-way street, to be achieved at whatever cost must be paid.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023
  • But what about turning left onto a one-way street during a red light?
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 6 June 2025
  • Booking a direct one-way flight and paying in cash.
    — Mariyam Muhammad, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Pricing starts at around $6,000 one-way.
    — AFAR Media, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The grid is no longer a one-way street of big plants pushing power downstream.
    — Alvaro Rozo, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But transparency cannot be a one-way demand.
    — Paul Diego Craney, Boston Herald, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, the credit score isn’t the only one-way ticket to a loan here.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Just make sure the one-way airfare makes financial sense.
    — Jill Schildhouse, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Yes, a case can be made for why Hunter would have more impact as a one-way player.
    — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The longest option lasts about eight hours and is a one-way train ride with a return bus trip.
    — Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The hottest question in the league this week Are teams done building around one-way stars?
    — Sam Amick, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • All the major streets in downtown used to be one-way, for at least around 50 years.
    — R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Just one-way, that route covers hundreds of millions of miles and takes over half a year, at best.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Ohtani has a 48-game on-base streak that will not be affected by his one-way start.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2026

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