Example sentences for: devaluation

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

  • Britain was vulnerable to speculators in 1992, because there was a sound, if not universally accepted, economic case for devaluation.

  • But instead the devaluation convinced everyone that the game was up and that the ruble was about to become more or less worthless, and that was that.

  • To stave off disastrous currency devaluation, the Russian government is tripling interest rates, spending reserves, and exhorting Russian tycoons to invest their money in Russian markets to restore foreign investors' confidence.

  • The LAT says the austerity moves are "likely to produce a punishing recession," but suggests this cure isn't as bad as the disease of a currency devaluation, which it says, the government is determined to avoid.

  • Others--such as me--worried this would lead to such a massive devaluation that inflation would surge, and argued (in the wilderness) for temporary controls on capital flight.


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