Below you will find example sentences with "food prices". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Food Prices in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: prices
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 13
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 25.6 words

Words in this phrase

food prices

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • food can mean: Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. Common word
  • prices can mean: plural of price Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

4 but food prices rose by 1× and reduce food prices by 15 1× and rising food prices following a 1× and unstable food prices pass through 1× but the food prices are not 1× by lower food prices could deliver 1× continuously assess food prices as well 1× fertilizer made food prices skyrocket 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

all across the 1× as a matter 1× but he warns 1× food prices had 1× food prices increased 1× food prices ticked 1×

Common sentence endings:

0 6 percent 1× 15 per cent 1× adverse weather conditions 1× already insanely high 1× be less expensive 1× behind it now 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

percent 6× inflation 6× energy 5× rising 5× due 4× high 4× increased 3× rate 3× global 3× items 2× onion 2× say 2×

Related phrases

food trucks food waste food bank food delivery food truck food safety food vendors food items food security crude prices

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around prices:

energy prices 11×

Just before it in the phrase index:

food menu food items food inflation food delivery food choices food bank

Just after it in the phrase index:

food processing food production food safety food security food supplies food truck

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

food trucks food waste food bank food delivery food truck food safety

Same ending:

crude prices fuel prices gas prices oil prices energy prices grocery prices

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "food prices" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 4 but food prices rose by, and reduce food prices by 15, percent, inflation and energy stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with food trucks, food waste, food bank and energy prices, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with food prices

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Food prices ticked down 0.1 percent and energy prices increased 0.6 percent. (14 words)

Food prices had surged by 20 percent, while gas prices had risen by 50 percent. (15 words)

Then, perhaps, we will get some relief on food prices and the other exorbitant prices plaguing us. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

Organizers of the boycott say the goal is to reduce grocery prices and increase food security for Canadians, and bring a list of demands, including the company sign a grocers' code of conduct and reduce food prices by 15 per cent. (41 words)

We shall create and support a National Commodity Board that will review and continuously assess food prices as well as maintain a strategic food reserve that will be used as a price stabilisation mechanism for critical grains and other food items. (41 words)

Rising food inflation, especially in the prices of onion, has already elevated the CPI inflation rate to a 6-year high but the food prices are not the only reason behind it now. (33 words)

Example sentences (20)

Food prices increased by 1.6 percent on a monthly basis in September, primarily due to seasonal increases in perishable food items – up by 7.5 percent, with onion prices on top.

Organizers of the boycott say the goal is to reduce grocery prices and increase food security for Canadians, and bring a list of demands, including the company sign a grocers' code of conduct and reduce food prices by 15 per cent.

She said the reason people were increasingly struggling to afford food was due to a combination of surging food prices, energy prices and higher interest rates.

Rising food inflation, especially in the prices of onion, has already elevated the CPI inflation rate to a 6-year high but the food prices are not the only reason behind it now.

We shall create and support a National Commodity Board that will review and continuously assess food prices as well as maintain a strategic food reserve that will be used as a price stabilisation mechanism for critical grains and other food items.

If food prices go up, people who spend most of their income on food purchases are unable to buy the food.

As a matter of arithmetic, lower energy costs, bolstered perhaps by lower food prices, could deliver a 5 percentage point cut in consumer prices by late spring.

Food prices ticked down 0.1 percent and energy prices increased 0.6 percent.

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The rate of inflation - which charts rising prices - has remained stubbornly high, in part owing to food prices increasing at their fastest rates for 45 years.

With Ramadan just days away, it is not enough to say that there will be no increase in food prices during this month when the prices are already insanely high.

Food prices had surged by 20 percent, while gas prices had risen by 50 percent.

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It cited some slightly elevated inflation driven by high and unstable food prices, pass-through of previous exchange rate pressures, fuel prices and utility tariff adjustments.

Then, perhaps, we will get some relief on food prices and the other exorbitant prices plaguing us.

All across the Global South, food prices have increased or soared despite record-low price of oil, a huge component of agricultural prices.

Much of the fall was attributable to a change in energy prices, which fell by 8.4%, but food prices rose by 2%.

So I think that food prices, energy prices, those core things are going to be less expensive.

Global food prices rose for the fifth consecutive month in May, pushed up by rising prices of cheese and maize due to adverse weather conditions.

And along with many commodities, phosphate prices spiked, which - because of its use as a fertilizer - made food prices skyrocket.

But he warns that risks to inflation outlook remain, largely due to rising global oil prices, upward adjustments in utility tariffs, and rising food prices following a drop in agricultural output last season.

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