How to Use consumer goods in a Sentence

consumer goods

plural noun

• Like all consumer goods, fair food prices have shot up this year.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2022
• Prices for consumer goods stayed low, and drivers’ wages fell.
  — Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• Wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East are threatening flows of grain, oil and consumer goods.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
• The rate of inflation on a range of consumer goods has slowed markedly.
  — Peter S. Goodman Bridget Bennett, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• The rising cost of consumer goods is a chief reason for the increase, Foster said.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 1 July 2024
• That number tracks the cost of consumer goods from food and housing to vehicles.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 15 July 2022
• Both chemicals were used to make consumer goods but were phased out of production in the 2000s.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
• This should be the approach for all consumer goods industries.
  — Andrew Martin, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• There is some evidence that much of the price hikes for food and other consumer goods could have been avoided.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
• The fast-moving consumer goods segment has been FPIs’ favorite, too.
  — Quartz, 23 Nov. 2022
• The new plastic could be used to create everything from car parts to consumer goods.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2024
• This is expected to increase the prices of many consumer goods, from clothing to coffee.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
• As the Fed hiked rates over the past 20 months to tamp down soaring prices for consumer goods, CDs became an attractive place to place short-term savings.
  — Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 29 Nov. 2023
• And consumer goods companies say prices are unlikely to fall any time soon.
  — Tara Subramaniam, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
• After working as a consumer goods salesman for several years, Zong took over a small shop at a grade school in the eastern city of Hangzhou in 1987.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
• Conflicts abroad could push up prices for oil and other consumer goods, for example.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• The Consumer Price Index, which measures the average price of consumer goods and services, saw a year-over-year increase of 8.3% in April.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 11 May 2022
• The numbers are the highest recorded in the region, forcing motorists to seek out cost savings amid a broad jump in the cost of several consumer goods.
  — Gaya Gupta, Washington Post, 11 June 2022
• While inflation also has been dropping, the cost of groceries and some other consumer goods have not shrunk as much.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
• The painting bears little resemblance to the silkscreen prints of consumer goods that made Warhol an icon of the Pop Art movement—but the artist’s signature cheek and humor are there.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
• As a consumer goods company, our first focus is meeting the consumer needs.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 29 June 2023
• Is suburban drone delivery of consumer goods one of these things?
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• The monarchy is one example, but nothing in the world of consumer goods has more heritage appeal than classic cars.
  — Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 31 Dec. 2022
• The report’s analysis is based on June’s Consumer Price Index data, which was released this week and showed that the costs of consumer goods rose by 9.1% from the same month last year.
  — Julie Coleman, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• But if the Fed doesn’t tame inflation, consumer goods and services will stay too expensive.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• Disney’s starkly varied businesses, from theme parks and TV to films and consumer goods, require a broad depth of knowledge and skills.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
• Congestion pricing will not lead to higher prices for most consumer goods and services.
  — Kathryn Wylde, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024
• To date, much of the regional divide in price increases — from rents to consumer goods and services — has traced back to migration.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• Clean energy now accounts for more than 5% of private investment in structures, equipment and durable consumer goods, according to the report.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 July 2024
• Some examples include bio-polyethylene or bio-polypropylene, which are often used for food packaging and consumer goods.
  — Allyson Chiu, Washington Post, 20 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024