Example sentences for: movie-ticket

How can you use “movie-ticket” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A decade earlier, then-Mayor Ed Koch actually urged a boycott when movie-ticket prices rose from $6 to $7.

  • Randolph B. Cohen, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School (who is not to be confused with Slate 's "News Quiz" writer Randy Cohen), raises an interesting question about movie-ticket prices (see " In Praise of Movie Ticket Prices").

  • Observe that in constant dollars, movie-ticket prices more than doubled between 1935 (when they cost a quarter; that's $2.93 in 1999 dollars) and 1970 (when they cost $1.55; $6.68 in 1999 dollars).

  • But the 1980s, which produced movies that were worse in the aggregate than movies being made today (and much, much worse than the movies that were being made during the 1970s) would seem to disprove that hypothesis, because movie-ticket prices were higher then (in constant dollars) than they are now.

  • That's still "high" by national standards; according to the Motion Picture Association of America, the average movie-ticket price last year was a mere $4.69.


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