Example sentences for: hiked

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

  • TCI , the country's biggest cable-TV company, plans to raise its rates by 7 percent . This comes after TCI recently hiked its rates by 13 percent.

  • The magazine hiked ad rates accordingly, pricing quirky advertisers out of the magazine in favor of big national ones.

  • Ricki Lake and Jerry Springer have hiked their ratings by showcasing increasingly repulsive molesters, abusers, adulterers, and pederasts, all of them eager to tell the world about their loathsomeness.

  • At the same time, the central bank has hiked interest rates continuously to check inflation and allay the fears of Western investors, thus discouraging needed business borrowing.

  • The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday hiked attorney registration fees by $49 a year to boost both legal aid services and support for lawyers with drug and alcohol problems.


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