How to Use standard of living in a Sentence

standard of living

noun phrase

• The agency is grasping for ways to improve the standard of living.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• Their children could work again, which would raise their standard of living.
  — Rana Wehbe Watson, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• The earnings are indexed to the change in overall wage levels and the rise in the nation's standard of living while you were employed.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
• With the economy on the rise, some members of the middle class enjoyed a more comfortable standard of living.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 13 June 2024
• Let your mind wander, and reach out to people in the know who can point you in a direction that sparks your imagination and encourages you to use your skills to raise your standard of living.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• Combined, the couple’s fortunes flourished to an extent that eclipsed even the senator’s prior standard of living.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• Over the past 12 months, hourly wages have risen by 4.5 percent, raising workers’ standard of living, especially the lowest earners.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
• But a growing number of people whose standard of living plummeted when U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil exports took hold in 2012 were not convinced.
  — Jason Rezaian, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
• For much of the late 20th century, getting a four-year college degree was seen as a sure path to the good life—career success in a (white-collar) job and a steadily increasing standard of living.
  — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
• Residents in Arkansas, meanwhile, have to spend the least to maintain their standard of living, at about $8,500 on an annual basis.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
• Workers may find new jobs, but if those positions pay substantially less, their standard of living falls.
  — Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2024
• The Netherlands and Norway nabbed second and third place thanks to their high standard of living and solid healthcare, education, and social services.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 1 Aug. 2024
• According to the research, around half of workers are worried about job stability, burnout, and having to reduce their standard of living.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 11 May 2023
• With tax deductions available to investors, the city offers a high standard of living and diverse destinations to reside in.
  — Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024
• At the same time, however, people understand that the United States has been an economic powerhouse from which Russia could learn a lot in order to achieve the same standard of living.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 25 May 2023
• The cessation of the legal battle marks a watershed moment in a tortuous five-year effort to raise the standard of living for resort workers in Anaheim.
  — Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• From a small trading port, Dubai has transformed into a global city with top-notch infrastructure, a vibrant economy and a high standard of living.
  — Dubai Tourism Contributor, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
• Mark Kelly The world’s population has increased eightfold since 1800, and standards of living have never been higher.
  — David Deutsch, WSJ, 20 July 2023
• The company says the project has halted logging, brought back elephants, improved the local standard of living and prevented millions of tons of carbon emissions.
  — Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
• The focus would shift from quantity to quality, on measures like health, education and standard of living.
  — Hisako Ueno, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Now, many of the region’s inhabitants lament the end of cross-border commerce, which has reduced standards of living and cut residents off from many European products.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2022
• As laid out by Lin and Ng, the Chinese immigrants who settled in Argentina in the 1990s were single-mindedly focused on making money and raising their standard of living.
  — Lautaro Grinspan, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2024
• Net pension replacement rate is among the most important concepts when thinking about maintain the standard of living, according to experts.
  — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• While workers without a four-year degree once dominated the ranks of people enjoying this middle-class standard of living, a college degree is now the norm rather than the exception among this group.
  — Preston Cooper, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• These measures reflect a desire to promote greater economic inclusion and higher standards of living and to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Mariana Mazzucato, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2024
• Still, Americans, especially younger and future generations, will feel the loss with a lower standard of living.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
• Six decades later, the nation has made tremendous strides, including a sizable reduction in the poverty rate as Americans enjoy an improved standard of living.
  — Angela Rachidi, National Review, 8 Jan. 2024
• Inflation will keep interest rates high, eating away at people’s livelihoods, and inevitably will have long-term detrimental effects on their standard of living.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• Over a retirement that could last several decades, inflation can erode the buying power of your other assets, forcing a quicker spend-down and threatening your standard of living.
  — Mark Miller, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Despite tangible gains on poverty, India has not achieved commensurate progress on key standard of living metrics.
  — Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024