Example sentences for: deflationary

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

  • Some economists--namely, yours truly--have even argued that Japan should try to get out of its deflationary trap by creating expectations of inflation .

  • Such deflationary pressures, pessimists note, set off the Great Depression.

  • On the other hand, what happens if two nations have joined their currencies, and one finds itself experiencing an inflationary boom while the other is in a deflationary recession?

  • In emphasizing that the best, and clearest, use of monetary policy is to revive an economy in the wake of a deflationary crash by cutting rates, Greenspan seemed to acknowledge that the Fed was ill-equipped to be in the business of figuring out what stock prices should be.

  • And more was at stake in these asset-market collapses than the money of hedge-fund investors: The sharp rise in the yen last fall threatened to send Japan into a deflationary spiral, the drying up of liquidity in the United States briefly seemed to threaten a general financial collapse.


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