How to Use nondurable in a Sentence

nondurable

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• Sales of clothing and other nondurable goods slowed to an annual gain of 2.6%.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2021
• Sales of clothing and other nondurable goods slowed to a modest annual gain of 2.6%.
  — Martin Crutsinger, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• Spending on travel, dining and nondurable goods is the low-hanging fruit of the recovery.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 July 2021
• Orders for nondurable goods, items not expected to last three years, rose 0.8% last month, up from a 0.4% increase in August.
  — Martin Crutsinger, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2017
• Households spent less on services and durable goods, while consumption of nondurable goods, such as food, increased.
  — Megumi Fujikawa, WSJ, 18 May 2022
• The next chart displays PCE inflation for both durable and nondurable goods, along with services, and demonstrates that durables prices are driving the overall rate.
  — Douglas Carr, National Review, 23 July 2021
• An increase in nondurable goods was led by gas and other energy products, the agency said.
  — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2022
• Retail jobs fell by 7,600 for a fourth-straight drop while transportation and warehousing and nondurable goods also slipped.
  — oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
• Since around 1995, durable goods like cars and equipment have tamped down inflation, and prices for nondurable goods like clothing and toys have often grown only slowly.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2022
• Durable and nondurable goods pricing move only somewhat differently, but both show the same faster rises this year.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• But the report came with some red flags: Large, durable goods purchases (think cars and appliances) were down 0.2%, while spending on other, nondurable items surged 0.9% — mostly because food and gas prices are on the rise.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn and Anneken Tappe, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
• The Wednesday report on spending and incomes showed that consumers boosted their purchases of durable goods such as cars by 3.3% in October while spending on nondurable goods such as clothing rose by 1.6%.
  — Martin Crutsinger, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2021
• The Wednesday report on spending and incomes showed that consumers increased their purchases of durable goods such as cars by 3.3% in October, while spending on nondurable goods such as clothing rose by 1.6%.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Nov. 2021
• Purchases of nondurable goods such as clothing edged up 0.3 percent following a 2.2 percent fall in December.
  — Martin Crutsinger, The Seattle Times, 29 Mar. 2019
• There were also large declines in job openings in that sector, as well as the construction and nondurable goods manufacturing industries.
  — NBC News, 4 Jan. 2022
• Workers continued to leave their jobs at record rates in health care, social assistance and nondurable goods manufacturing.
  — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
• About 40% of the money went toward purchases supporting industries such as food, beauty and other nondurable consumer products that had already seen spikes in spending before the checks went out.
  — Kenneth Mitchell, The Conversation, 8 Mar. 2021
• The increase in recent activity was across both durable and nondurable goods factories, despite nearly half of firms reporting some negative effect from the coronavirus spread.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2020
• Growth in longer-lasting durable goods output was offset by declines in nondurable production, with most major categories, such as food and petroleum, posting declines in November.
  — Sharon Nunn, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2018
• The largest factor in Connecticut’s most recent personal income data was a nearly half-percent drop in earnings related to nondurable manufacturing of goods.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 25 June 2019
• While the demands of knowledge workers and other white-collar types get much of the attention, government data shows quit rates are highest in sectors like hospitality and nondurable goods manufacturing.
  — Rob Walker, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2021
• The rate of openings was highest in the leisure and hospitality industries, nondurable goods manufacturing and professional and business services.
  — CBS News, 11 May 2021
• The top-performing sectors of Connecticut’s economy were retail and nondurable manufacturing, which includes consumer goods such as cosmetics, cleaning products, food and office supplies.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 25 July 2019
• In order to maintain this recovery, durable and nondurable goods manufacturers must take decisive action in remediating global supply chain issues and ramping up hiring to meet increasing demand.
  — Kristen Fowler, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• Some of the largest decreases in vacancies were in state and local government, excluding education; nondurable goods manufacturing and federal government.
  — Reade Pickert, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
• Vacancies dropped in accommodation and food services, construction and nondurable goods manufacturing.
  — Olivia Rockeman, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2022
• Durable goods manufacturing — furniture, appliances and machinery — shrank, while nondurable manufacturing — clothing and shoes, textiles and chemicals — expanded.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 23 Dec. 2021

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