How to Use price index in a Sentence

price index

noun

• Over the last two decades, the price index for tuition and fees has increased 172%.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2021
• In May, the food price index increased 10.1 percent compared to the same time last year.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 10 June 2022
• Looking at month-to-month data, the PCE price index rose by 0.3%.
  — Martha C. White For Cnn Business, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
• Friday's price index numbers put us on the right track for that.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 1 May 2021
• In fact, the Case-Schiller home price index recently ticked up.
  — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023
• The Case-Shiller home price index peaked in August when prices rose 19.8 percent year-over-year that month.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
• The food price index is up 2.2 percent versus last year.
  — NBC News, 29 May 2021
• On a month-to-month basis, the wholesale price index fell by a tenth of a percentage point.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• The name of this new price index refers to its inspiration: the Vimes Boots Index.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2022
• Black Book found that the price index for them has been mostly steadily climbing since the spring, with a bit of a plateau in the late summer.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 20 Dec. 2021
• Excluding food and energy, the price index was up 0.1% in the month.
  — Reade Pickert, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2022
• The core price index, which excludes volatile items such as food and energy, rose 4.6%.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2021
• The price index for used tractors at Richie Bros. is up by 19 percent since last year, Ackley said.
  — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2021
• What’s your take on the CPI [consumer-price index] report from this morning?
  — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
• The gain in the overall PCE price index in May followed a 0.6% increase a month earlier.
  — Fortune, 25 June 2021
• Wall Street is betting the producer price index, or PPI, will slow as well.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 9 Oct. 2022
• By some measures, U.S. home price indexes are at all-time highs.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2023
• As per the report, the price index for gasoline dropped 3.8% in June, following a 3.6% decrease in May.
  — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 11 July 2024
• The core price index, which excludes volatile energy and food prices, rose 0.5% over the last month—down from 0.6% one month prior.
  — Jonathan Ponciano, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
• The price index for the Midwest, including Michigan, rose 8.1% for the 12 months through August.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2022
• The producer price index has been at 10 percent year-over-year.
  — Jon Hartley, National Review, 22 Mar. 2022
• The two categories that had the largest impact on the rising price index were food at 8.8% and energy at 6.9%.
  — Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• The stock market stopped trading after a sharp drop in the benchmark share price index on Monday.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
• The producer-price index fell in August and July from the prior months.
  — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2022
• The national Case-Shiller home price index peaked in August when prices rose 19.8 percent year-over-year that month.
  — From Staff and Wire Reports, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
• Rent accounts for about one-third of the consumer-price index, which economists expect to tick higher in the months ahead.
  — Will Parker, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2021
• The producer price index jumped 0.7 percent on a monthly basis, the most since June.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 17 Feb. 2023
• If gold were a good and consistent hedge, the ratio of its price to the consumer-price index would have been relatively steady over the years.
  — Mark Hulbert, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2021
• The personal consumption expenditures price index was up 0.2% from the prior month and rose 2.5% from a year ago.
  — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2024
• That came after the producer price index, which tracks wholesale prices, on Tuesday showed a 0.1% increase in July from June, less than forecast.
  — Alex Harring,brian Evans,sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024