How to Use traffic ticket in a Sentence

traffic ticket

noun
  • Doing so could lead to a traffic ticket.
    — Jillian McCarthy, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
  • He was arrested out in the desert over a traffic ticket.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Not even an unpaid traffic ticket.
    — Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 22 June 2026
  • April 7 will also be the next court date for a pending traffic ticket.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Just because someone is issued a traffic ticket, is that now a crackdown?
    — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026
  • What the traffic ticket scam text looks like At first, the message seems convincing.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • What is a traffic ticket to a billion-dollar company?
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The penalty for violating this law is an infraction, like a traffic ticket.
    — Sierra Van Der Brug, Oc Register, 20 Mar. 2026
  • For example, one of the social workers had a family where someone had a traffic ticket and couldn’t afford to pay the fine.
    — Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The Clarín story said police used a traffic ticket issued in Buenos Aires to zero in on the men.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 May 2026
  • The Volo Museum got a traffic ticket for one of its vehicles in the mail but the thing is, the museum says the car hasn't moved in years.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 11 May 2026
  • Good had no criminal record beyond a traffic ticket and described herself as a poet, writer and mother with deep community ties.
    — Michael Biesecker, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Court records don't show any criminal cases out of Pueblo for either brother, aside from a 2022 traffic ticket for Vasquez.
    — Austen Erblat, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • In March, Maria Flores drove her husband to the courthouse to pay fees related to a traffic ticket in Tennessee.
    — ABC News, 12 June 2026
  • In his finale, Fraser couldn’t possibly list everyone who has approached them with a host of prickly issues, starting with something as small as a traffic ticket.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The person's criminal history was limited, aside from receiving one traffic ticket.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Court records show no criminal history for Keller in Colorado, and just a previous traffic ticket in Florida.
    — Austen Erblat, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Tovar, who lived in Nevada and was the sole provider for his wife and four children, was pulled over in an undisclosed location for failing to appear in court for a traffic ticket, Nunley’s original sanction order said.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
  • Good appears to have never been charged with anything involving law enforcement beyond a 2012 traffic ticket in El Paso County.
    — The Denver Post, Denver Post, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The lawsuit claims that during the investigation into the drinking and driving by the deputy chiefs, Pope found evidence that Sumstad had contacted another law enforcement agency to try and fix a traffic ticket for a friend.
    — Ben Wheeler april 28, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Officials at the Volo Museum said they were stunned when a $50 traffic ticket from New York City arrived in the mail accusing their black 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am replica of speeding through Brooklyn on April 22.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 14 May 2026
  • On Thursday, May 21, an investigator with the Cobb County Police Department testified that police found a traffic ticket at the scene of the crime, mere feet away from Couch's dead body, which belonged to Jacques and included the license plate number for his vehicle, Atlanta News First reported.
    — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026

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