Example sentences for: wage

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

  • 31 It should be noted that Belgium, Finland and Spain have a negative wage premium according to this measure.

  • At the same time, an inflation guage--the Employment Cost Index, which measures wage pressure--was lower than expected.

  • Robert Kuttner, in his WP op-ed advocating further raises in the minimum wage, observes that the past two years have shown that raising the minimum wage doesn't detract from job creation.

  • Domestic servants are not protected by the Labor Law, and unskilled foreign workers suffer from the lack of a minimum wage in the private sector and from failure to enforce the Labor Law.

  • Designed as a long-range weapon that would penetrate deep into the Soviet Union to wage nuclear war, today it subsists on a no-nukes diet, carrying 16 satellite-guided, one-ton bombs (or eight 5,000-pounders) into battle.


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