Example sentences for: commodities

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

  • Needing no commodities, they would accept only silver bullion in exchange for goods, thus undermining Britain’s balance of payments.

  • These companies made their mark selling sturdy commodities like chamois cloth shirts and field boots that are easy to keep in stock because the demand for them is stable from year to year.

  • Dole sounds absurd when he alleges that the paper that broke Whitewater and the story of the first lady's commodities trades has not been aggressive in pursuing Clinton scandals.

  • K. op-ed calls the broadcast a "snuff film" and wonders, in light of the shows big rating and attendant advertising revenues, "Shouldn't the profit motive end where life and death become mere commodities for public consumption?"

  • Among the commodities exchanged when foreign ships called were Hawaiian women, who soon gained a measure of economic independence through prostitution and other endeavors involving outsiders.


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