How to Use living standard in a Sentence

living standard

noun

• The price has changed, but your living standard hasn’t.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
• That living standard, however, varies from city to town and from state to state.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2024
• That translates into a 5 percent hike in Joe's living standard year-in and year-out through the end of his days.
  — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• All of us enjoyed the same living standard regardless of who did what in the business.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• The program's pay is based on each location's cost-of-living standard, the website states.
  — Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2021
• That’s a shock to many Chinese who are used to an economy that kept on expanding and living standards that rose with it.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• Stock markets can boom when GDP is stagnant, when wages are flat, when living standards are going nowhere.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2018
• The rich would stay rich, while everyone else’s living standards would decline.
  — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
• Billions of people in Asia hope that the now-decades long increase in living standards continues.
  — Fang Ruan, Fortune Asia, 20 Mar. 2024
• The ratio needs to be at around 60% if retirees want to maintain a preretirement living standard.
  — Jing Yang, WSJ, 2 June 2021
• The other 98% is garnered by the employees and the wider community through wages, cost savings, and living standard.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• The collapse in oil and natural gas prices threatens living standards, as the energy sector makes up two-thirds of the country’s exports.
  — Madeline Roache, Time, 24 Apr. 2020
• The result of this boom was a dramatic rise in living standards almost everywhere.
  — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2023
• Equipping workers to produce more goods each hour is the key to expanding the economy and raising living standards.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
• Backers have long said that increasing the minimum wage would raise the living standard of workers and help combat poverty.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2021
• The book opens with a comparison of living standards in two towns called Nogales – one in Arizona and one south of the border in Mexico’s Sonora region.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
• Brexit still hurts the economy and Britons have endured a historic squeeze on living standards after the pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 July 2024
• When living standards are rising so fast, taking a chance on a party that promises to shake things up is a much less attractive proposition.
  — The Economist, 30 Oct. 2017
• The Russian government has gone to great lengths to try to maintain a sense of economic stability and to preserve living standards.
  — Peter Rutland, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
• Looked at a slightly different way, the richest people in the country would get a huge increase in their living standard — an 8-to-10 percent raise in after-tax income.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Sep. 2017
• But marching toward a debt ceiling default puts American living standards on the line.
  — Christine Romans, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
• Convergence in living standards within and across countries has stalled.
  — Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• Millennials, on the other hand, see the technology that for us was innovation not a long time ago as a living standard.
  — Pablo Turletti, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• As living standards go in these communities, Maria Salazar isn’t doing so badly.
  — Kirk Semple, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2017
• After a prolonged crisis in living standards, these are still unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels for at least a year.
  — Emma Norris, TIME, 5 July 2024
• Productivity drives a country’s living standards in the long term.
  — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2018
• Biden’s surge in government spending sparked a surge in inflation that has battered working-class living standards.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
• Credit card debt recently hit an all-time high of more than $1 trillion as consumers have attempted to maintain their living standards.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2023
• Many Ukrainians supported the deal with Brussels, seeing it as a way to lessen Moscow’s influence and improve living standards.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• Recession would hurt the value of Turkey’s stocks and bonds and could create significant problems for the country’s banks, and would be detrimental to living standards in the country.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024