Example sentences for: surplus

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

  • The big budget issue, the two papers agree, is whether or not to tap into the current surplus generated by Social Security taxes.

  • The NIPA federal surplus/deficit measure as a share of GDP is roughly similar to the unified budget measure.

  • Last year, Canada ran a $21 billion trade surplus with the United States.

  • McCain replies that there's a surplus.

  • I--and, I think, many others--consider this remark an explicit warning to congressional Republicans that, however the debate about the projected budget surplus goes, a large tax cut will endanger low interest rates and thus the prosperity that makes surpluses--and thus the proposed tax cuts themselves--possible.


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