How to Use disposable income in a Sentence

disposable income

noun
  • Well, people on the go with a lot of disposable income.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Some don’t have the disposable income.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Less disposable income means that consumers must cut back on spending and save more.
    Jeff Goertzen, Orange County Register, 8 July 2024
  • People with something to prove and disposable income to prove it with.
    Chris Cardillo, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
  • On the other hand, players now have more disposable income to gamble on or against their team.
    Stewart Mandel, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
  • How about using some of that disposable income to do things with those children who moved across country with you.
    Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • For most of us, though, that amount of money is several months' worth of disposable income.
    Kim Snaith, Space.com, 27 Nov. 2025
  • For some, disposable income for beef is already dwindling.
    Kevin Williams, CNBC, 10 June 2026
  • These adults now have the disposable income to buy the toy that evaded them at birthdays and holidays.
    Heather Bien, Martha Stewart, 23 May 2026
  • This can be difficult to hear and heed when there is much disposable income, a lot of buzz, or many people courting you.
    Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • That translates to a decline of about$35 a month in disposable income.
    Rob Wile, NBC news, 30 Mar. 2026
  • If mortgages, auto loans, and credit card rates go down, consumers will have more disposable income to spend.
    Rohit Arora, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The greater disposable income among men has also been a supporting factor.
    Rhiannon Frater, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • This is a select group—early adopters with disposable income and access to plenty of doctors.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
  • As the economy grows, people have more disposable income.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • As the cost of credit card debt and mortgages fall, consumers’ disposable income increases.
    Indy Guha, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Seattle stood out globally for its high disposable income and quality of life.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Under this plan, the payment will be 10% of disposable income for those who qualify.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Most of our disposable income goes towards going out, eating out, and traveling.
    R29 Team, Refinery29, 26 Sep. 2025
  • American women, then newly equipped with jobs and disposable income en masse, became part of the consumer class.
    Zara Khan, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • This chart shows how much US households pay to manage their debt, as a percentage of disposable income.
    Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
  • Yet the biggest benefits (in every sense of the word) are too often limited to those with the most means and disposable income.
    Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2023
  • In other words, the majority of Gen Z’s disposable income is up for grabs.
    Jeff Fromm, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • But its core demographic, young people with disposable income, has gone elsewhere.
    Arielle Gordon, Pitchfork, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Singles who live alone and technically count as households often have more disposable income.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • There then was a depletion of consumers’ disposable income over the last few years due to the country’s tough economic outlook.
    Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 2 July 2024
  • More and more adults are joining the sport, especially as baby boomers hit retirement age, with more leisure time and disposable income.
    R. Scott Rappold, The Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2024
  • But much of the gains are from investments that climbed alongside stock markets and largely don’t translate into disposable income.
    Brian Cheung, NBC News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Zurich topped the global ranking for its low unemployment, safety, and high disposable income.
    Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Baby boomers, who often have more disposable income, are stepping in to fund travel for children and grandchildren.
    Taylor Haught, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Dec. 2025

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