How to Use parking meter in a Sentence

parking meter

noun
  • A lot of the streets didn’t even have parking meters on them.
    — The Editors Of Ad, Architectural Digest, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Our parking meter system should go the way of town hall fisticuffs.
    — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Because the lines at the parking meters are very long!
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
  • But some users are leaving them locked to street signs, poles and even parking meters.
    — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 31 May 2018
  • And this is an argument for parking meters that goes back decades.
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 14 June 2023
  • Chicago raised parking meter rates and put meters on streets that didn’t have them.
    — Mary Williams Walsh, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Chicagoans have felt the impact of the parking meter deal firsthand.
    — Jackson Potter, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • The glitch has affected both parking meters and wrestling video games.
    — Jazmin Goodwin, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The 75-year lease of the city's parking meters has been widely panned since it was signed.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • Signs will be attached to posts, poles and parking meters to note the restrictions.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The photo showed that her side of the parking meter still had an hour and 40 minutes left.
    — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Restaurants, parking meters, event tickets and ads all rely on them.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Another thing on her list is reminding me to pay the parking meter.
    — Alyssa Shelasky, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Spots along the parkways would be marked with numbers on the pavement, rather than ugly parking meters or posts.
    — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The megaprojects bill is the parking meter deal and TIF on steroids.
    — Jackson Potter, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • The earliest likely vote on the parking meters would be in June.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 20 May 2026
  • The mayor’s staff has promised greater transparency on how parking meter revenue will be spent.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In August, Cincinnati's parking meter rates will go up for the third time in three years.
    — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 11 July 2018
  • Most downtown parking is governed by time limits rather than parking meters.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2026
  • The parking meter for her spot was one of those large blue boxes that control seven other spaces, too.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Pay directly at the parking meter or on the app indicated on the sign.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 21 May 2025
  • The parking meter lease cannot be changed, Villegas adamantly said.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
  • On the plus side, imagine life in the future on a bigger, wider sidewalk, one without parking meters.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Imagine taking the rotten parking meter deal statewide.
    — Jackson Potter, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • Last year, the city seized control over parking meter revenue, changing who decides how that money is spent.
    — Jay Derr, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The city will return to 50 percent of the parking meter funds in following years.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2021
  • The city just announced this week that some downtown parking meters will go from four-hour to two-hour to make more short-term parking available.
    — Ashley Fredde, Idaho Statesman, 29 May 2025
  • The changes have no impact on new parking meters installed recently on city streets on the edges of the park and just outside the park.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The sidewalk is narrow and cluttered—with humans on foot, trees, parking meters, and those dang scooters strewn about.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 4 June 2018
  • The car struck a parking meter and slammed into a wall before flipping over, according to the report.
    — Jordan McPherson, miamiherald, 31 Jan. 2018

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