How to Use price gouging in a Sentence

price gouging

noun

• At the very least, the bereaved deserve peace from price gouging.
  — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
• For example, price gouging, supply chain kinks, the war in Ukraine.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2023
• State lawmakers respond to L.A. fires with bills to halt price gouging, help schools.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025
• At the moment, the legal system may be the only route to address the current spate of insulin price gouging.
  — Danielle Ofri, STAT, 20 Jan. 2023
• But the state of emergency, put in place along with Kentucky's price gouging laws, will allow a more broad response to the flooding.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2023
• Oil execs rake in profits Are the gas companies price gouging?
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 3 July 2022
• No retailers have been cited for price gouging, Tong said.
  — Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2022
• So Newsom should stay his left hand while his right works on preventing gasoline price gouging.
  — Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
• First-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
• Reckless spending plus price gouging equals inflation and a high cost of living.
  — The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
• Democrats have decried the price gouging by some institutions with little to show for students.
  — Michael B. Horn, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• The office's ads have covered topics such as Medicaid fraud, opioids, child abuse and price gouging.
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 31 July 2022
• Most states have laws intended to curb price gouging, with many of these restrictions tied to declared states of emergency.
  — Annie Nova, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
• Vice President Kamala Harris has promised to ban price gouging for groceries and to reduce child-care and healthcare costs.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
• Food wholesalers, too, were accused of price gouging, to the point that a 1917 grand jury in Baltimore vowed to indict anyone holding on to foodstuffs to raise prices.
  — Christina Tkacik, Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2022
• Trump and his allies have framed Harris’s economic plan to ban price gouging as a form of communist price controls.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Sep. 2024
• Tourists in the historic city of Paro increasingly complain of price gouging by local taxi drivers.
  — By Charlie Campbell/gelephu, Bhutan, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
• Kentucky last year applied its existing price gouging rules to health care staffing agencies.
  — Bram Sable-Smith, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
• Callers to the hearing voiced frustration with the utilities, which one ratepayer accused of price gouging.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Some politicians even blame corporate price gouging for the inflated prices.
  — Alice Barlow, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
• Local areas may have even stricter rules against price gouging, or tougher protections for tenants and consumers, than what's established by the state.
  — Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
• It's driven by corporate greed and consumer price gouging.
  — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2024
• At the very same time, the special legislative session called by Gov. Gavin Newsom this fall to counter gasoline price gouging by refiners has about finished its work.
  — Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
• And even some Democratic economists don’t endorse the attack on price gouging.
  — Richard McGahey, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• Food prices have increased dramatically in the last four years, but not because of price gouging or corporate greed.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2024
• Industry leaders argue that higher gas prices are the result of the immutable forces of global supply and demand—not price gouging.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 19 May 2022
• Making the flight controllers in Ukraine removes the potential supply bottleneck, and eliminates the risk of price gouging.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Outside of issues on the primary market, to try and stop price gouging from scalpers on resale, Bryan opted to make his tickets non-transferable.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
• The tournament’s 2019 decision to leave Charlotte for Baltimore followed slumping attendance numbers and allegations of price gouging by some local hotels, the Observer reported at the time.
  — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2025
• In addition to removing such regulatory roadblocks, the order also extended price gouging bans on hotel, motel and rental housing in Los Angeles County through March 8.
  — Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 16 Jan. 2025