How to Use consumer price index in a Sentence

consumer price index

noun

• The Fed’s goal is for the consumer price index to fall to 2%.
  — Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Sep. 2024
• Here's a look at the pace of change in hourly wages and the consumer price index since 2020.
  — WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
• Parisi told board members that the rest of the increase in the levy was due to the increase in the consumer price index.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
• The consumer price index for the euro area rose by 5.3%, down from 5.5% in June.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 31 July 2023
• The July consumer price index was up by 8.5% from the same month a year ago.
  — Michael S. Derby, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• The consumer price index rose by 3.4% over the last 12 months ending in April.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2024
• Year on year, the consumer price index rose 2.5%, compared to a heated 8.6% in the US that same month.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 6 July 2022
• The latest data from the consumer price index shows the price of groceries in the Bay Area has gone up.
  — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 July 2022
• The next consumer price index report comes out on May 10.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
• What’s more, as of August, the consumer price index has increased more than 8% over the last 12 months.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2022
• Rents as measured by the U.S. consumer price index haven’t risen this fast since May 1991.
  — Alex Veiga, USA TODAY, 1 July 2022
• Rents as measured by the U.S. consumer price index haven't risen this fast since May 1991.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 June 2022
• Measured from month to month, which gives a more up-to-date snapshot, the consumer price index inched up just 0.1%.
  — Christopher Rugaber, oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2022
• As of March, prices are up 6% over the past 12 months, according to the most recent consumer price index.
  — CBS News, 27 Mar. 2023
• The core consumer price index, which strips out volatile parts like food and energy, rose 0.6%.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 10 June 2022
• Sandwiched between the two is the mid-month reading of the benchmark consumer price index.
  — Craig Stirling, Fortune, 23 June 2024
• That helped push the annual consumer price index to a four-decade high of 9.1 percent that month.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• The fuel oil portion of the consumer price index nearly doubled from the same time last year.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 July 2022
• The core consumer price index increased 0.3% from the prior month, while the overall CPI advanced 0.4%.
  — Reade Pickert, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Nov. 2022
• For the 12-month period ending in May, the consumer price index rose 8.6%.
  — Martin Sullivan, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect the consumer price index in May to be the same as in April at 8.3%.
  — Fortune, 9 June 2022
• Stripping away the volatile prices of variables such as food and energy, the core consumer price index climbed by 0.4% from April to May.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 13 June 2023
• July’s consumer price index was 3.2%, up from 3% in June.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
• The consumer price index for all items jumped 1% from April, worse than Wall Street’s predictions of a 0.7% increase.
  — Christine Mui, Fortune, 10 June 2022
• Inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, appears to have peaked at a 40-year high of 9.1% last June.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The cost of pet food rose 14.4% in March from a year ago, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index.
  — Amanda Pérez Pintado, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
• The release of the consumer price index this month revealed that inflation rose 9.1% in June compared with the same time last year.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 July 2022
• This segment of the consumer price index equates to the cost of the electricity services charged by PG&E in this region.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
• The consumer price index inched up 0.4% from last year, although that was boosted above zero only by a jump in fresh vegetable prices.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2024
• Context: Those pay bumps would be tied to either the consumer price index or the average raises for employees in career services over the past four years, with the lowest deciding each official's raise.
  — Esteban L. Hernandez, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024