Example sentences for: inflation

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

  • Or even compared to the $54 billion surplus projected for Japan (which, despite its poor-mouthing, continues to enjoy much higher growth and lower inflation and unemployment than the prideful United States).

  • Everyone agreed that the solution is technology: Automakers favor slower-inflating air bags, while consumer advocates want new gizmos to detect the size of each passenger and adjust the inflation speed accordingly.

  • The Wall Street Journal front-page news box dutifully reports that yesterday the Dow dropped 231 points--a reduction in value of 2.2 percent--on, it says, inflation worries.

  • The hoopla is evidence "that the art world takes itself way too seriously" (Michael Kimmelman, the New York Times ). Time 's Robert Hughes cites the inflation of Ray's reputation as evidence of declining expectations for American artists: "Small bass and medium carp are treated as potential Moby Dicks."

  • All the papers report that college tuition and fees rose less than 5 percent this year--twice the rate of inflation but the lowest rate of growth in many years.


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