How to Use inelastic in a Sentence

inelastic

adjective

• In the near term, the economy’s hunger for oil and gas is inelastic.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
• Gasoline, at least in the short run, is very inelastic.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 9 June 2022
• With inelastic demand, barring sales one day of the week means that more product will be sold on each of the six remaining ones.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2017
• The bad news is that, if their model is correct, the caldera floor should become inelastic at between 5 and 12.5 meters.
  — Russ Juskalian, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2017
• The two brothers can thank Chanel for discretely upping the prices of its goods in the face of inelastic demand over the pandemic for the large payouts.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 10 June 2022
• On the other side of the ledger, oil demand is inelastic and will rapidly rebound to 100m barrels a day (b/d) as economies reopen and jets fly again.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 June 2021
• Each time your neural network learns a task, more of its neurons will become inelastic.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2021
• In markets where the aggregate consumer demand is inelastic, the total of the consumers’ and merchants’ surplus with and without cards are the same.
  — Norbert Michel, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• The third method the researchers used, called inelastic neutron scattering spectroscopy, is much less common.
  — Stephanie Demarco, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
• In a world of more-fluid fandom, Dolan couldn’t count on inelastic demand for his terrible product.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2018
• Elastic and inelastic collisions are just the two extreme ends of the collision spectrum.
  — WIRED, 11 Oct. 2022
• But even players like me who love big-budget gaming are dropping more and more of our (completely inelastic) free time into iPhone play.
  — Chris Kohler, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2011
• Parents have no choice but to subscribe to the Disney service, and parents also know that there seems to be inelastic demand for Disney’s theme park tickets.
  — Jon C. Ogg, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2017
• Having failed to predict the commodity downturn in the second half of that year, Brazil’s government was shocked at how inelastic the economy proved to be.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• While constantly hiking prices, Chanel has still reported a shortage of bags in the face of inelastic demand and has had to limit the number that consumers can buy in China and Paris.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 21 June 2022
• The state is considered one of the most Republican states in the U.S., and one of the country’s most inelastic – a term that suggest Alabama’s voters are consistent, and do not ebb and flow with the national mood.
  — al, 14 Aug. 2022
• Consumer goods with inelastic demand Not all consumer goods are good bets during a recession.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• The cuts, Barclays analyst Tim Long suggests, show that Apple’s offerings are no longer price inelastic.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2019
• This is a staple product with few good substitutes, which means demand is inelastic; even a small drop in supply forces a big jump in price before buyer behavior will change.
  — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 6 Feb. 2023
• Business travel used to be the airlines’ bread and butter, because demand business travel is inelastic.
  — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2017
• Those consuming liquor—a luxury item—could afford to pay a tax, demand was inelastic and distilled spirits had become a public-health threat.
  — Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
• In the past, conventional wisdom said that demand for healthcare is inelastic — patients will seek healthcare no matter what is happening in the world.
  — Adnan Iqbal, Forbes, 6 July 2021
• Such inelastic demand is the reason why private companies in all sectors want to achieve monopoly power or collude to raise price.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
• So this idea that businesses are increasingly catering to -- as the wealth gap gets bigger -- a portion of the population that is more price inelastic and that can afford these services.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023
• This market behavior demonstrates two long-term truths, first, that natural gas prices are volatile in large part because of the inelastic nature of supply and the highly variable demand for heating.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• According to their inelastic-markets perspective, the booming day-trading flows of late could have had an impact many times larger than their absolute size.
  — Sam Potter, Bloomberg.com, 26 Sep. 2020
• The fifth problem is the inelastic (price-insensitive) demand for Russia's energy and grain exports.
  — Jeffrey Sachs, CNN, 20 Apr. 2022
• The company’s lock on a large market with inelastic demand was chum for hedge funds; a half-dozen, notably the New York investment management firm Paulson & Company, bought stakes in the company.
  — Alexander Zaitchik, The New Republic, 28 June 2018
• First, the demand for eggs in the short term is inelastic, according to Dartmouth College economics professor Bruce Sacerdote.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2023
• The supply of gullible and greedy people willing to chase it higher is accordingly higher and supply is, famously, inelastic (even before the hackers raid your wallet).
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024