How to Use wage in a Sentence

wage

1 of 2 noun

• The table and chairs cost two weeks' wages.
• Both of them make decent wages.
• The company gave workers a four percent wage increase this year.
• The company offers competitive wages and good benefits.
• That data showed the first slowing in wage growth since the end of 2021.
  — Eshe Nelson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• The strength of the job market and wage gains have helped sustain the spending, Shay said.
  — Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• Make strong wages and a healthy climate part of the same campaign.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Staff have a starting wage of $25 an hour and have paid vacation and sick leave.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
• The living wage for a childless adult in Jackson County is $16.68 per hour.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• The punchline is that the wages are 30% higher than anytime in state history.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
• At this point, wage growth is keeping up with (and exceeding) the rate of rent increase in most markets.
  — Brad Hunter, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• When jobs are scarce, there is a lot of competition even for openings that pay low wages.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• The slow hiring gave businesses in many districts confidence that wage growth would ease in the coming months, the Fed said.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2024
• Even if inflation is getting you down, at least wages are up for most San Diegans.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
• Adverse changes in the labor market create wage cuts and layoffs.
  — Amiah Taylor, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• Part of the Fed’s reasoning was to cool the job market and bring down wages, which, in theory, suppresses price growth.
  — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• As long as the job market remains strong and consumers keep spending, wages and prices are likely to keep rising.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 28 July 2023
• However, both the union and association say the two sides are far apart on what that wage increase should look like.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• Initially, the union called for 40% wage increases over the four-year duration of the contract as well as a four-day workweek at full-time pay.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
• Plus, a blockbuster year for the labor market plugged worker shortages and helped tame wage growth to more normal levels.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
• Spring told analysts that while inflation has slowed, so has labor and wage growth.
  — Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• The rise in wages signals that companies and workers expect higher prices to stick around, Mr. van Rijn said.
  — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• Part of the Fed’s reasoning was to cool the job market and bring down wages, which many economists believe suppresses price growth.
  — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• And our workers' wages and conditions have went backwards.
  — CBS News, 17 Sep. 2023
• In 2024, hiring will be more modest, but rising real wage growth will matter more.
  — Tshilidzi Marwala, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
• This week’s event will support the organization’s goal to raise wages in states like Michigan, Ohio and Arizona on the 2024 ballot.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
• Some of them have outstanding wages ordered from the TWC that have not been collected from employers.
  — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Sticking points in negotiations were wage increases and the length of the workweek.
  — William Kim, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
• This has meant hardships for many lower-income families, whose wages may not have fully kept up with rising prices.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 11 Apr. 2024
• Hundreds of thousands of workers have left the country, and wages have stagnated even as commodities have grown more expensive.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024

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wage

2 of 2 verb

• They waged a guerrilla war against the government.
• Local activists are waging a campaign to end homelessness in the region.
• This is a fight the league can’t win and shouldn’t even be waging.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• In that respect, too, the war of 1948 is still being waged.
  — Samuel G. Freedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2023
• Daniel Ortega and his wife have waged war against the church.
  — David Curry, National Review, 24 Sep. 2023
• The last time the ratio was this high was in the late 1940s, reflecting the cost of waging World War II.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• The war is being waged in what, in global terms, are slivers of land.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• It’s not lost on the Senate leader that all three have waged statewide campaigns.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
• And so the war trudged on — thousands of miles away, but passionately waged in L.A.’s hearts and minds.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• Sometimes the union waging the strike doesn’t have the option, at least not at that time, to have an open-ended strike.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• As the parties have waged political battles over the courts, the share of women on the bench has steadily climbed.
  — Aaron Mendelson, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• Even now, while the war was being waged, some kibbutzniks worried the wider world had already moved on from their losses — to the toll in Gaza.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• The guild seemed prepared, in months leading up to the negotiations, to wage battle in this round of talks.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2023
• Trump and DeSantis have the money to wage a broader campaign.
  — Sara Burnett, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
• The North African war was being waged mostly along coastal areas, where Axis airfields and bases were strung out.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• For both sides, the ability to wage war greatly depends on the availability of weapons.
  — Laura King and Tracy Wilkinson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2023
• Two elite competitors, head-to-head, mano a mano on the clay or grass, waging some kind of ultra-athletic chess match.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2023
• This is a worldview that seeks to wage not a war against poverty but a war against the poor instead—those who have, in his view, shown insufficient faith.
  — Elle Hardy, The New Republic, 23 Oct. 2023
• This would be a problem for Ukraine, which already has its hands full, waging a ground war against a massive Russian army.
  — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2023
• For much of history, that battle has been waged against microbes, mutations, and the ravages of old age.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 June 2023
• That is raising the stakes of Israel’s latest conflict with Hamas immeasurably: how it is waged in the days ahead, and for how long it is fought.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
• Meta is one of the many companies that has waged criticism against Apple and its new policies in recent months.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 15 Feb. 2024
• Now, longtime friends, former teammates and Kings fans are teaming up to give something back as Pollard wages the fight of his life.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 18 Feb. 2024
• The proceedings followed the example of Nuremberg, as though the war waged by Japan had been an Asian mirror image of that waged by Germany.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• News of the deal at the heavy-duty truck maker comes as the union continues to wage strikes against three major car manufacturers.
  — Paradise Afshar, CNN, 2 Oct. 2023
• The small war cabinet will hold most of the authority to wage the military campaign against Hamas.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• South Africa has no capacity to declare or wage war with Russia.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• This is great news for my camp in the ongoing Ryan vs. Brian war, most often waged while ordering coffee.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• Israel’s war on Hamas, waged since the militant group attacked Israel on October 7, has heightened those tensions.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
• Disney has battled back against Peltz and a separate activist fight to seat new directors waged by Blackwells Capital.
  — William Earl, Variety, 30 Mar. 2024

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