Example sentences for: low-wage

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

  • If the government gives inexpensive, first-class insurance to the uninsured children of low-wage families, low-wage families enrolled in lousy insurance programs will rightly feel cheated.

  • This relative wage increase in textiles took place despite its concentration in a low-wage region—the southeastern Piedmont states—the low level of collective bargaining, and the higher-than-average percentage of women workers.

  • France, say its best-selling authors and most popular talking heads, is the victim of globalization--although adroit use of red tape has held imports from low-wage countries to a level far below that in the United States (or Britain, where the unemployment rate is now only half that of France).

  • (The Croatian economy, which ought to be thriving from beach tourism and low-wage manufacturing, is a mess.)

  • Beginning in the 1970s, retailers expanded their offshore sourcing efforts, especially after quality standards improved, establishing sourcing offices and relationships in low-wage countries, particularly in Asia.


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