Example sentences for: inflation

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

  • This is typical of the big papers: they usually report these jobs numbers as if it were perfectly obvious that the chief cause of inflation is full(er) employment.

  • Most economists do agree that the Consumer Price Index significantly overstates inflation, and the system currently adjusts retirees' initial benefits for real economic growth as well as for inflation.

  • Even so, when you factor out inflation and taxes, a gallon of gas costs 10 cents less than it did in 1973.

  • With the exception of energy prices, in fact, inflation remains about as quiescent as it can be, despite the fact that the economy continues to grow at a better-than-4 percent clip and that the unemployment rate has reached levels no one thought were possible anymore.

  • That might not be the case if Greenspan's successor were either an inflation dove like William Greider or a perma-bear like Jim Grant.


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