How to Use standard of living in a Sentence

standard of living

noun phrase

• The agency is grasping for ways to improve the standard of living.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• Their children could work again, which would raise their standard of living.
  — Rana Wehbe Watson, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• The earnings are indexed to the change in overall wage levels and the rise in the nation's standard of living while you were employed.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
• Let your mind wander, and reach out to people in the know who can point you in a direction that sparks your imagination and encourages you to use your skills to raise your standard of living.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• Combined, the couple’s fortunes flourished to an extent that eclipsed even the senator’s prior standard of living.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• Over the past 12 months, hourly wages have risen by 4.5 percent, raising workers’ standard of living, especially the lowest earners.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
• For much of the late 20th century, getting a four-year college degree was seen as a sure path to the good life—career success in a (white-collar) job and a steadily increasing standard of living.
  — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
• Residents in Arkansas, meanwhile, have to spend the least to maintain their standard of living, at about $8,500 on an annual basis.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
• Workers may find new jobs, but if those positions pay substantially less, their standard of living falls.
  — Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2024
• According to the research, around half of workers are worried about job stability, burnout, and having to reduce their standard of living.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 11 May 2023
• The cessation of the legal battle marks a watershed moment in a tortuous five-year effort to raise the standard of living for resort workers in Anaheim.
  — Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• Mark Kelly The world’s population has increased eightfold since 1800, and standards of living have never been higher.
  — David Deutsch, WSJ, 20 July 2023
• The company says the project has halted logging, brought back elephants, improved the local standard of living and prevented millions of tons of carbon emissions.
  — Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
• The focus would shift from quantity to quality, on measures like health, education and standard of living.
  — Hisako Ueno, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Now, many of the region’s inhabitants lament the end of cross-border commerce, which has reduced standards of living and cut residents off from many European products.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2022
• As laid out by Lin and Ng, the Chinese immigrants who settled in Argentina in the 1990s were single-mindedly focused on making money and raising their standard of living.
  — Lautaro Grinspan, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2024
• Net pension replacement rate is among the most important concepts when thinking about maintain the standard of living, according to experts.
  — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• While workers without a four-year degree once dominated the ranks of people enjoying this middle-class standard of living, a college degree is now the norm rather than the exception among this group.
  — Preston Cooper, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• These measures reflect a desire to promote greater economic inclusion and higher standards of living and to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Mariana Mazzucato, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2024
• Still, Americans, especially younger and future generations, will feel the loss with a lower standard of living.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
• Six decades later, the nation has made tremendous strides, including a sizable reduction in the poverty rate as Americans enjoy an improved standard of living.
  — Angela Rachidi, National Review, 8 Jan. 2024
• Inflation will keep interest rates high, eating away at people’s livelihoods, and inevitably will have long-term detrimental effects on their standard of living.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• Over a retirement that could last several decades, inflation can erode the buying power of your other assets, forcing a quicker spend-down and threatening your standard of living.
  — Mark Miller, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Legislators must fix Tier 6 to protect our public services and maintain a standard of living and quality of life that 20 million New Yorkers have rightfully come to expect and deserve.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2024
• But the downturn has shaken citizens who have never experienced anything but improvements in their standard of living.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• This will not fundamentally alter our standard of living, nor deprive our children, nor harm our nations’ economic growth.
  — Chuck Collins, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
• Stagflation — the combination of recession and inflation — was lowering the standard of living.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 June 2023
• With the emergence of energy from fossil fuels such as coal and oil, the industrializing West greatly improved production and raised standards of living (albeit at the cost of tremendous pollution).
  — Philip Coggan, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2020
• Hun Sen has progressively tightened his grip on power during his 38 years in office while also ushering in a free-market economy that raised the standards of living of many Cambodians.
  — Time, 22 Aug. 2023
• Although indicators are headed in the right direction, pausing will simply prolong the inflation cycle and continue to erode our standard of living.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024