ECONOMIC in a Sentence

Learn ECONOMIC from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

249 example sentences for ECONOMIC, such as:

1. They conducted a campaign of economic sabotage.
2. Such an economic organization is radically wrong.
3. The economic growth dipped to a low point last year.
4. Recent economic doldrums have damaged the rural west.
5. No new business can flourish in the present economic climate.

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 Meanings and Examples of ECONOMIC
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economic
 a.  pertaining to economy; frugal; cheap
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  The broader economic organization thus clearly demanded sprang up here and there as accident and local conditions determined.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Naturally the Negroes resented, at first bitterly, signs of compromise which surrendered their civil and political rights, even though this was to be exchanged for larger chances of economic development.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
3  The average size of Negro families has undoubtedly decreased since the war, primarily from economic stress.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  Such an economic organization is radically wrong.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  This represents the lowest economic depths of the black American peasant; and in a study of the rise and condition of the Negro freeholder we must trace his economic progress from the modern serfdom.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  All social struggle is evidenced by the rise, first of economic, then of social classes, among a homogeneous population.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  To-day the following economic classes are plainly differentiated among these Negroes.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
8  They have little to tide over a few years of economic depression, and are at the mercy of the cotton-market far more than the whites.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
9  Coming now to the economic relations of the races, we are on ground made familiar by study, much discussion, and no little philanthropic effort.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  To natural viciousness and vagrancy are being daily added motives of revolt and revenge which stir up all the latent savagery of both races and make peaceful attention to economic development often impossible.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  At the same time this social, intellectual, and economic centre is a religious centre of great power.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
12  Political defence is becoming less and less available, and economic defence is still only partially effective.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
13  With this sacrifice there is an economic opening, and perhaps peace and some prosperity.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
14  Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
15  Some had the feeling that in proportion as the Negro received education, in the same proportion would his value decrease as an economic factor in the state.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The article gives us a real insight into the causes of the present economic crisis.
17  What he has tried to expound in this article bears on a key problem in our economic reform.
18  Conventional economic and accounting theory tends to assume that the process involved is highly rational and orderly.
19  Rising interest rates were an outward indication of the change in government attitude to economic controls.
20  With both countries experiencing economic revolutions, it might be time to redraw the traditional relationship.
21  I want to plant the slopes of the hills with trees of economic value.
22  From an economic point of view , the new development will benefit the town greatly.
23  The President and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform.
24  Recent economic doldrums have damaged the rural west.
25  The economic growth dipped to a low point last year.
26  Statistical anomalies can make it difficult to compare economic data from one year to the next.
27  The new regime has no successful economic reforms on which to build.
28  No new business can flourish in the present economic climate.
29  They conducted a campaign of economic sabotage.
30  The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.