How to Use central bank in a Sentence

central bank

noun

• The central bank has hiked rates 11 times since last March.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
• At the start of 2019, fears of recession moved the central bank to backtrack and slash rates.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
• The central bank has raised its benchmark rate to 3.75% to 4%, up from close to zero in March.
  — Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
• The central bank has hiked rates five times since December in a bid to tame prices.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 21 June 2022
• In Nancy, the door to a local French central bank office was set on fire.
  — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• The Chinese central bank has paused its purchases of gold over the past five months.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2024
• His father, Louis, was a tax collector for the French central bank.
  — Paul Lewis, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• Seven billion dollars in funds frozen by the U.S. that’s not going to the central bank.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
• The protesters had gathered in front of the Zhengzhou branch of the nation’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2022
• But stubborn price increases mean the central bank has much more work to do.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
• The nation's central bank is in the midst of a yearslong fight to dial back inflation.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2024
• But this year, inflation and the central bank’s efforts to tame it have caused rates to more than double.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• Most experts Fortune spoke to said the answer is clearly no, and a July rate hike from the central bank is still on the way.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 12 July 2023
• That has been driven by a huge increase in gold buying by central banks.
  — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
• The central bank is now focusing more on that last factor.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
• The Russian central bank raised borrowing costs to 12% Tuesday in an attempt to stop a slide in the ruble.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2023
• Which is why central banks are powerless over where dollars go and in what amount.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
• If central banks cut rates too soon, then the knock-on cost of those wage increases could push the overall prices of goods and services back up.
  — Adam Gale, Fortune Europe, 13 May 2024
• To their leading lights, all a government needs is a central bank armed with a printing press.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
• The central bank at its June policy meeting held rates steady and penciled in one cut for 2024.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 18 June 2024
• The central bank raised interest rates last week to boost the yen, which could be a drag on corporate profits there.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2024
• The Fed now plans to hold rates steady longer to ensure inflation moves toward the central bank's 2% target.
  — Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2024
• The central bank has been fighting price spikes by raising interest rates to 16%.
  — David McHugh and Vladimir Isachenkov, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
• The central bank would go on to raise interest rates three more times before Election Day.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2022
• But for the past three months, that gauge has run at a pace faster than is consistent with the central bank’s inflation target.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 22 May 2024
• But as Trump’s policies roll out and Musk keeps prodding, the central bank’s tightrope walk gets trickier.
  — Dan Irvine, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
• And those differences surely overwhelm a central bank’s attempt to set the cost and amount of credit.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
• In July, Powell said the central bank's staff had abandoned its forecast of a downturn.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• This is the textbook prescription for how a central bank should behave.
  — David Wilcox, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
• Look out for any pushback against the notion, gripping the bond market, that the central bank will soon cut interest rates.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Mar 2025