How to Use consumer goods in a Sentence

consumer goods

plural noun
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  • Like all consumer goods, fair food prices have shot up this year.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2022
  • Prices for consumer goods stayed low, and drivers’ wages fell.
    — Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East are threatening flows of grain, oil and consumer goods.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The rate of inflation on a range of consumer goods has slowed markedly.
    — Peter S. Goodman Bridget Bennett, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • That number tracks the cost of consumer goods from food and housing to vehicles.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 15 July 2022
  • Both chemicals were used to make consumer goods but were phased out of production in the 2000s.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
  • This should be the approach for all consumer goods industries.
    — Andrew Martin, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • There is some evidence that much of the price hikes for food and other consumer goods could have been avoided.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The fast-moving consumer goods segment has been FPIs’ favorite, too.
    — Quartz, 23 Nov. 2022
  • This is expected to increase the prices of many consumer goods, from clothing to coffee.
    — Anna Gordon, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
  • As the Fed hiked rates over the past 20 months to tamp down soaring prices for consumer goods, CDs became an attractive place to place short-term savings.
    — Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 29 Nov. 2023
  • And consumer goods companies say prices are unlikely to fall any time soon.
    — Tara Subramaniam, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
  • After working as a consumer goods salesman for several years, Zong took over a small shop at a grade school in the eastern city of Hangzhou in 1987.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Conflicts abroad could push up prices for oil and other consumer goods, for example.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The numbers are the highest recorded in the region, forcing motorists to seek out cost savings amid a broad jump in the cost of several consumer goods.
    — Gaya Gupta, Washington Post, 11 June 2022
  • While inflation also has been dropping, the cost of groceries and some other consumer goods have not shrunk as much.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The painting bears little resemblance to the silkscreen prints of consumer goods that made Warhol an icon of the Pop Art movement—but the artist’s signature cheek and humor are there.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
  • As a consumer goods company, our first focus is meeting the consumer needs.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 29 June 2023
  • Is suburban drone delivery of consumer goods one of these things?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The monarchy is one example, but nothing in the world of consumer goods has more heritage appeal than classic cars.
    — Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The report’s analysis is based on June’s Consumer Price Index data, which was released this week and showed that the costs of consumer goods rose by 9.1% from the same month last year.
    — Julie Coleman, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • But if the Fed doesn’t tame inflation, consumer goods and services will stay too expensive.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Disney’s starkly varied businesses, from theme parks and TV to films and consumer goods, require a broad depth of knowledge and skills.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
  • To date, much of the regional divide in price increases — from rents to consumer goods and services — has traced back to migration.
    — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The uptick in rents coincides with blistering inflation in a host of other consumer goods.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 29 July 2022
  • Then more entrepreneurs went and looked at health care and education and consumer goods—a bunch of our industries that felt way out of reach for entrepreneurs in the first wave of startups.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The bulk of consumer goods moves on trucks and trains powered by the fuel, which is also used in manufacturing and food production.
    — Naureen S. Malik, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The consumer price index is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.
    — Ivana Pino, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2023
  • As for the price of consumer goods with smaller lithium-ion batteries like smartphones, experts say those prices should be more stable.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Even so, diesel prices remain high, according to AAA, which affects delivery costs and raises prices for all sorts of consumer goods.
    — Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2022

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