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
  • That is triple the rate of inflation over the same period.
    — Matthew Scogin, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Most requests come from women in the South, Moeller said, and inflation has increased many of the costs.
    — Glenn Gamboa, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
  • Steel prices are up 62%, more than twice as much as overall inflation in that time.
    — Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
  • 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
  • But just 32% approved of the job Trump was doing on inflation.
    — Sarah Beth Hensley, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Some of the older girls may learn about inflation, rising prices, and the value of money.
    — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Russia’s war in Ukraine has hit global growth as high inflation spread across the globe.
    — Paul Hannon, WSJ, 23 June 2022
  • 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
  • The president pledged to bring down inflation on the campaign trail.
    — Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Much of July’s slowdown in inflation was due to drops in prices for gasoline and oil.
    — Stan Choe, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Even as gas prices have waned, the resulting inflation hasn’t yet cooled.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 15 Sep. 2022
  • But keeping folks in rentals should be a short-term problem for inflation, the report said.
    — Michael S. Derby, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
  • 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 Fed and central banks in Europe and Asia are raising rates to cool inflation that is at multi-decade highs.
    — Joe McDonald, ajc, 11 Nov. 2022
  • He's allowed 14 runs and four home runs across his last three starts, causing the inflation in his season ERA.
    — Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
  • 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
  • However, Powell and the Fed are holding back from cutting rates to see the impact of the tariffs on inflation, which has cooled in recent months.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • The Federal Reserve is monitoring the tariff situation with a big focus on inflation.
    — Elaine Kurtenbach, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025

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