How to Use price index in a Sentence

price index

noun

• Friday's price index numbers put us on the right track for that.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 1 May 2021
• These are measured with price indexes.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
• The current price index is based on the revenues rather than the volume of usage.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2020
• Also, humans tend to look at their checkbook balances as their price index.
  — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 15 Jan. 2026
• On a month-to-month basis, the wholesale price index fell by a tenth of a percentage point.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• In fact, the Case-Schiller home price index recently ticked up.
  — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023
• Over the last two decades, the price index for tuition and fees has increased 172%.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2021
• The fee is calculated based on a weekly diesel price index.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
• The producer price index has been at 10 percent year-over-year.
  — Jon Hartley, National Review, 22 Mar. 2022
• Traders will also watch out for March's import and export price indexes.
  — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2026
• The stock market stopped trading after a sharp drop in the benchmark share price index on Monday.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
• On Wednesday, traders will also watch out for the latest producer price index.
  — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
• Black Book found that the price index for them has been mostly steadily climbing since the spring, with a bit of a plateau in the late summer.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 20 Dec. 2021
• What’s your take on the CPI [consumer-price index] report from this morning?
  — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
• The consumer and producer price indexes for the month of September were due out next week.
  — Sarah Min, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
• The producer price index tracks the prices businesesses pay each other for their goods and services.
  — Medora Lee, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
• These worries are being compounded this week by hot prints in both the consumer price index and the producer price index .
  — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 13 May 2026
• The producer-price index fell in August and July from the prior months.
  — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2022
• Wall Street is betting the producer price index, or PPI, will slow as well.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 9 Oct. 2022
• The Case-Shiller home price index uses repeat sales of the same homes to measure changes in values across the market.
  — Elliot Njus, OregonLive.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• But the consumer price index, the producer price index, and retail sales will likely be delayed due to the shutdown.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2025
• This will be followed by the producer price index on Thursday, as well as weekly initial jobless claims.
  — Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
• However, this is a price index problem, not a GDP problem.
  — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
• Those figures were based on the consumer-price index increase since the last time the salaries were adjusted in 2002.
  — Ryan Randazzo, azcentral, 6 Mar. 2018
• Raising the ante That ups the ante for next week’s consumer and producer price index numbers for July.
  — Sarah Min, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026
• The bitcoin price index on trade website Coindesk slid below $3,000 for the first time in six weeks.
  — Reuters, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2017
• Investors will look for the consumer and producer price index readings due out this week for the latest insights on inflation.
  — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
• The producer price index, which measures what wholesalers pay for raw goods and materials, was flat month over month in July.
  — Sean Conlon,joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026
• Other data due this week include the producer price index and durable goods orders for September.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2025
• The consumer price index comes out on Tuesday, and the producer price index follows on Thursday.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2025