Example sentences for: proxy

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

  • Instead, NIPA includes a depreciation charge ("consumption of general government fixed capital") in current spending as a proxy for the contribution of capital to the output of government services.

  • Median family income measured for the hospital's zip code area was included to capture demand effects and as a proxy for cross sectional wage variations.

  • While this is a proxy for labor and non labor costs, it is considered realistic since in the U.S., the use of workforce full time equivalents provide estimates within a few percentage points of those calculated with labor and non labor costs.

  • This tells us about the age of the victim , not of the shooter, but it's the best rough proxy I've seen in my professional readings (I teach a seminar on firearms regulation at UCLA Law School).

  • So long as color is a proxy for entitlement, there will be many who find it useful to ostentatiously posit a conflict between their racial core and their assimilated shell.


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