Example sentences for: monopolistic

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

  • A letter writer to the WP , who claims to have worked for some of the biggest Cabinet departments, asks an interesting question: Why is the federal government accusing Microsoft of monopolistic business practices when, he says, those departments discourage the purchase of non-Windows PCs?

  • Miscellany: Ralph Nader is launching a campaign against Microsoft , alleging "a strange type of monopolistic practice" that controls "content and innovation" rather than price.

  • Some big new ideas--"asymmetric information" (the seller knows if a car is a lemon, the buyer does not), game theory, "rational expectations" (the market is as smart as the economist modeling it), monopolistic competition, etc.--opened up dramatically new ways of thinking about a number of economic issues.

  • Au contraire , the unhappy consensus was that it was avaricious, monopolistic, loyal only to the bottom line.

  • Just as a doubly monopolistic Microsoft would be reluctant to raise the price of Windows 95 for fear of losing Internet Explorer users, it would be equally reluctant to raise the price of Internet Explorer for fear of losing Windows 95 users (who might not be willing to invest in a computer at all if the price of browsers is too high).


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