How to Use inflation in a Sentence

inflation

noun

• The rate of inflation is high.
• The government has been unable to control inflation.
• That kind of inflation takes decades, not months or years, to bring down.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• Over the past few years, the Fed has gone through multiple stages of its inflation fight.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
• Mergers have slowed in the past year due to high interest rates, the war in Ukraine, and inflation.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
• And paychecks for many workers have grown near the pace of inflation.
  — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
• The pattern of job gains has likely helped to cool inflation.
  — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
• Those protests have also led to a new spike in inflation, amid shortages of items like food and gas.
  — Marcelo Rochabrun, Bloomberg.com, 10 Feb. 2023
• Too much aid might cause inflation — but that, unlike slow growth, is a problem the Fed knows how to solve.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• But that pain is very small as compared to if inflation is allowed to reemerge and stay with us for many years.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 9 July 2023
• Some of the older girls may learn about inflation, rising prices, and the value of money.
  — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 10 Jan. 2024
• The central bank wants to tamp economic growth to slow inflation, which hit a 40-year high last year.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 July 2023
• Although gas prices are down and the rate of inflation has cooled sharply, consumers are still hurting from years of price hikes.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
• For all those years, inflation or prices only grew by about less than 2 percent a year.
  — CBS News, 1 Dec. 2024
• They're being crushed by the high cost of living, by inflation and Bidenomics.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
• That, combined with the pinch of inflation, is likely to put a damper on spending plans later this year.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• The inflation that has plagued Mr. Biden's presidency has fallen to 4% from a peak of 9.1% last June.
  — CBS News, 28 June 2023
• That's down from a peak this year of 9.1% in June, but still higher than the Federal Reserve's inflation goal of about 2%.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2022
• Joe Biden: The economy is coming back The first question is to Biden about inflation.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
• Some tightening by banks would help the Fed fight inflation.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
• That was higher than overall U.S. price inflation, which peaked at 9% in June.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2022
• After a string of hot inflation reports to start the year, markets—and consumers—got a reprieve this week.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 June 2024
• If history is a guide, inflation hasn't been whipped yet.
  — Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 12 Dec. 2023
• More broadly, inflation has cooled recently from a 40-year high of 9.1% in June.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2023
• For decades now, the cost of education has increased over all ahead of inflation.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• As in the 13th District to the north, economic issues and inflation will likely be top of mind for these voters.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2024
• Even if the Pell doubles, tuition will rise between now and then, and inflation would erode the Pell's buying power.
  — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2022
• Key number: Hopes for lower inflation and rates have dimmed.
  — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2024
• The report comes with markets skittish over the state of inflation and the Fed’s potential response.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
• If on the other hand, concerns about inflation cause interest rates to continue to head up, that may throw cold water on the appetite for new issues.
  — Drew Bernstein, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 30 Jan 2025