Example sentences for: externality

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

  • This decision could either be based on the belief that there is inadequate evidence of a long-term mortality effect (although reliance on cohort evidence has been supported elsewhere [ 33 34 ] ) or the belief that long-term effects involve significant lags and near-term benefits might therefore dominate externality estimates.

  • That is what economists call an "externality."

  • One looks in vain in Gore's book for even a mention of the fundamentals of standard environmental economics: pollution as the prime example of an "externality" (a social cost that the market does not properly value), and the standard recommendation that externalities be corrected with pollution taxes or tradable emission permits.


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