How to Use consumer price index in a Sentence

consumer price index

noun

• Here's a look at the pace of change in hourly wages and the consumer price index since 2020.
  — WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
• Parisi told board members that the rest of the increase in the levy was due to the increase in the consumer price index.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
• The consumer price index for the euro area rose by 5.3%, down from 5.5% in June.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 31 July 2023
• The next consumer price index report comes out on May 10.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
• Measured from month to month, which gives a more up-to-date snapshot, the consumer price index inched up just 0.1%.
  — Christopher Rugaber, oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2022
• As of March, prices are up 6% over the past 12 months, according to the most recent consumer price index.
  — CBS News, 27 Mar. 2023
• That helped push the annual consumer price index to a four-decade high of 9.1 percent that month.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• The core consumer price index increased 0.3% from the prior month, while the overall CPI advanced 0.4%.
  — Reade Pickert, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Nov. 2022
• Stripping away the volatile prices of variables such as food and energy, the core consumer price index climbed by 0.4% from April to May.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 13 June 2023
• July’s consumer price index was 3.2%, up from 3% in June.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
• Inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, appears to have peaked at a 40-year high of 9.1% last June.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The cost of pet food rose 14.4% in March from a year ago, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index.
  — Amanda Pérez Pintado, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
• The cost of higher education is increasing at about twice the rate of the consumer price index.
  — Brian Mitchell, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Part of the increase in sales over last year is due to rising prices across most categories, with the consumer price index 7.1% higher for the past twelve months.
  — Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
• All the moves stemmed from the consumer price index (CPI) showing that inflation slowed to 7.7% last month, from 8.2% in September.
  — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2022
• Over the 12 months ending in September, the consumer price index increased 8.2%.
  — David Wilcox, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
• On a month-to-month basis, the consumer price index rose just 0.1% in November, down from 0.4% in October.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2022
• But the consumer price index has been stuck between 2% and 3% for five months, raising concern that the last mile toward the ECB’s goal may be slower than hoped.
  — David McHugh, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
• The consumer price index, the benchmark Oregon uses to determine how much the minimum wage will rise, was 5.0% over the past year.
  — Mike Rogoway | [e-mail], oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2023
• The Fed has been counting on declining home and rental prices to have a greater impact on the consumer price index and other gauges of inflation.
  — Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
• To the Constitution approved in 2006, that ties the minimum wage to like increases in the com consumer price index.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
• That was down from the 4% uptick the previous month, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
• During that two-year contract term, the consumer price index, a measure of inflation, rose 12%.
  — oregonlive, 7 July 2023
• The new rates include a consumer price index adjustment made every two years, which this year is 6.5 percent.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
• The Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2013 indexed the state’s tax on diesel fuel and gasoline to the consumer price index.
  — Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2023
• The Dallas-Fort Worth consumer price index is reported every other month and the peak was July’s 9.4% year-over-year rise.
  — Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2023
• The consumer price index climbed 3% in the year through June, according to data released Wednesday, less than the 4% increase in the year through May and just a third of its roughly 9% peak last summer.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 13 July 2023
• That would reflect the reality that over the last 92 years, the U.S. consumer price index has risen by an annual average of about 3.2%.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• On a month-to-month basis, the consumer price index rose just 0.1 percent in November, down from 0.4 percent in October.
  — Christopher Rugaber, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• The government is scheduled to release the next consumer price index reading Tuesday.
  — David J. Lynch and Tony Romm, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024