How to Use durables in a Sentence

durables

plural noun

• Demand for consumer durables is up in many cases more than 20% above the trend line.
  — Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2021
• As consumption shifted to goods, Mr. Levy says, the initial burst was in durables.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
• Meanwhile, inflation has spread well beyond durables to a wider range of goods and services.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• This has led analysts to make statements to the effect that core inflation would have been 2 points lower if consumer durables hadn’t gone up in price.
  — Jason Furman, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
• Buying conditions for household durables, homes and motor vehicles all fell to the lowest in decades.
  — Fortune, 17 Sep. 2021
• Having purchased new appliances (or carpeting, or a hot tub) last year means that one is unlikely to purchase such durables this year.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 16 May 2021
• Any pullback in household durables is certainly felt by steelmakers.
  — Fortune, 8 July 2021
• Unemployment is back to pre-pandemic levels in some states, consumer spending on durables is soaring, and Amazon had its best first quarter ever.
  — Sarah Hansen, Forbes, 4 May 2021
• As per some estimates, around 40% of all apparel, consumer durables, and electronics sales in the country happen during this period.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 18 Sep. 2020
• Thus, the technology and consumer durables sectors might experience a healthy rebound, while the banking and automotive industries would crash and burn.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• This is especially true for consumer debt relative to consumer durables, including cars.
  — Christian Weller, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• Thus, expect spending on consumer durables to taper down gradually but not severely.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• One danger is that curbs on property lending and development hit spending on goods more broadly, especially since spending on big consumer durables like white goods tends to move with housing.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 11 May 2021
• That seems logical, but supply constraints limited purchases of cars, boats, bicycles, appliances and most other types of durables.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• Those include construction, business capital goods and consumer durables.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• Supported by the growing online sales volume, consumer durables and apparel is another sector set to bounce back from its pandemic slump, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
  — Lukas Strobl, Bloomberg.com, 18 Oct. 2020
• Consumer complaints about rising prices on homes, vehicles and household durables reached a record, particularly hitting lower and middle-income households.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 19 July 2021
• Normally, recessions involve a decline in purchases of consumer durables—products that can last for years—because consumers can put off buying such products until their economic fortunes improve.
  — Paul Hannon, WSJ, 23 May 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024