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
• That rate should be around $18.77 an hour, keyed to the consumer price index.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• 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
• In June, the consumer price index fell below 3% for the first time in three years.
  — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Shelter costs make up a third of the consumer price index.
  — Phil Gramm and Mike Solon, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
• 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
• Services make up 57% of the consumer price index, while rent takes up 33%.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 16 Mar. 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 latest consumer price index shows an 11.9% increase in the price of meat, poultry, fish and eggs.
  — Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2021
• The prices of goods and services have been on the rise, as evidenced by a 5.4% increase in the consumer price index (CPI) over the past 12 months.
  — Phillip Braun, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• This is the biggest one-year jump seen in the government's consumer price index since 1990.
  — Molly Nagle, ABC News, 14 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Through February, the consumer price index rose by 7.9 percent, the most rapid pace it’s seen in decades.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2022
• 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
• The new consumer price index, released Wednesday, shows at-home food prices in the Twin Cities were up just 1.2% year-over-year in November.
  — Nick Halter, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
• The consumer price index for December, released Wednesday, was up 2.9 percent year over year.
  — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 16 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 7 Feb 2025