Example sentences for: cost-of-living

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

  • percent of the cost associated with the annual increases in federal salaries is due to cost-of-living and locality pay adjustment.

  • It also was able to take account of the dollars associated with actual cost-of-living adjustments, health insurance and the like, which were higher than earlier projected figures.

  • A recent cost-of-living survey ranked Shanghai as the fifth most expensive city in the world, ahead of London, Geneva, and New York.

  • But much would come in the form of reduced Social Security benefits, notably accelerated increases in the retirement age and a one-percentage-point cut in annual cost-of-living benefit adjustments.

  • A panel of economists appointed by Congress is expected to propose a new inflation index to replace the Consumer Price Index . The new index will reduce the official inflation rate, thereby trimming annual cost-of-living increases in Social Security and other federal benefits.


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