How to Use consumer price index in a Sentence

consumer price index

noun

• The consumer price index inched up 0.4% from last year, although that was boosted above zero only by a jump in fresh vegetable prices.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2024
• Housing costs also play a major role in inflation, making up the largest component of the consumer price index.
  — Suzanne P. Clark and Brian Deese, WSJ, 15 May 2022
• Rents as measured by the U.S. consumer price index haven't risen this fast since May 1991.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 June 2022
• The consumer price index is projected to show an 8.3 percent annual gain in May, the same as in April.
  — Anne Cronin, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• The nonpartisan agency forecasts that the consumer price index will rise 6.1 percent for the entire year, down from a current four-decade high of 8.3 percent.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 26 May 2022
• The Fed’s goal is for the consumer price index to fall to 2%.
  — Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Sep. 2024
• 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 July consumer price index was up by 8.5% from the same month a year ago.
  — Michael S. Derby, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• The consumer price index rose by 3.4% over the last 12 months ending in April.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2024
• Year on year, the consumer price index rose 2.5%, compared to a heated 8.6% in the US that same month.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 6 July 2022
• The latest data from the consumer price index shows the price of groceries in the Bay Area has gone up.
  — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 July 2022
• The next consumer price index report comes out on May 10.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
• What’s more, as of August, the consumer price index has increased more than 8% over the last 12 months.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2022
• Rents as measured by the U.S. consumer price index haven’t risen this fast since May 1991.
  — Alex Veiga, USA TODAY, 1 July 2022
• 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
• The core consumer price index, which strips out volatile parts like food and energy, rose 0.6%.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 10 June 2022
• Sandwiched between the two is the mid-month reading of the benchmark consumer price index.
  — Craig Stirling, Fortune, 23 June 2024
• 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 fuel oil portion of the consumer price index nearly doubled from the same time last year.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 July 2022
• 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
• For the 12-month period ending in May, the consumer price index rose 8.6%.
  — Martin Sullivan, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect the consumer price index in May to be the same as in April at 8.3%.
  — Fortune, 9 June 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
• The consumer price index for all items jumped 1% from April, worse than Wall Street’s predictions of a 0.7% increase.
  — Christine Mui, Fortune, 10 June 2022
• 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 64% price increase since then has far outpaced inflation, with the consumer price index rising only 37% during that span.
  — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024