How to Use inflation in a Sentence

inflation

noun

• The rate of inflation is high.
• The government has been unable to control inflation.
• Although gas prices are down and the rate of inflation has cooled sharply, consumers are still hurting from years of price hikes.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
• More broadly, inflation has cooled recently from a 40-year high of 9.1% in June.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2023
• Harris has sought, at times, to distance herself from Biden, billing herself as the change candidate for voters tired of inflation.
  — Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Oct. 2024
• This week, the government reported that consumer inflation cooled for a seventh straight month compared with a year earlier.
  — Paul Wiseman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
• Firstly, inflation has been cooling, and the Federal Reserve has scaled back on the pace of its interest rate hikes.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• The theory was that dirt-cheap money would encourage a modest rise in inflation that would stimulate corporate profits.
  — Hisako Ueno, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023
• Investors got the latest read on U.S. inflation this morning, and there's plenty of more economic and earnings data to come this week.
  — WSJ, 14 Feb. 2023
• Although inflation has dropped close to pre-pandemic levels, prices haven't receded and continue to impact consumers.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
• Those challenges likely include continuing supply chain issues and the impacts of inflation.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2023
• Brisk consumer spending, though, can also intensify upward pressure on inflation.
  — Christopher Rugaber, ajc, 15 Feb. 2023
• In January, inflation cooled slightly, to an annual rate of just under 60 percent, as energy prices fell.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
• On Tuesday, the consumer-price index data showed annual inflation cooled for a seventh straight month, but the monthly increase came in hotter than expected.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2023
• That kind of inflation takes decades, not months or years, to bring down.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• Over the past few years, the Fed has gone through multiple stages of its inflation fight.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
• Mergers have slowed in the past year due to high interest rates, the war in Ukraine, and inflation.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
• And paychecks for many workers have grown near the pace of inflation.
  — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
• The pattern of job gains has likely helped to cool inflation.
  — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
• Too much aid might cause inflation — but that, unlike slow growth, is a problem the Fed knows how to solve.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• But that pain is very small as compared to if inflation is allowed to reemerge and stay with us for many years.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 9 July 2023
• Some of the older girls may learn about inflation, rising prices, and the value of money.
  — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 10 Jan. 2024
• The central bank wants to tamp economic growth to slow inflation, which hit a 40-year high last year.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 July 2023
• They're being crushed by the high cost of living, by inflation and Bidenomics.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
• That, combined with the pinch of inflation, is likely to put a damper on spending plans later this year.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• The inflation that has plagued Mr. Biden's presidency has fallen to 4% from a peak of 9.1% last June.
  — CBS News, 28 June 2023
• Joe Biden: The economy is coming back The first question is to Biden about inflation.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
• Some tightening by banks would help the Fed fight inflation.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
• After a string of hot inflation reports to start the year, markets—and consumers—got a reprieve this week.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 June 2024
• If history is a guide, inflation hasn't been whipped yet.
  — Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 12 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024