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Example sentences for "cheapening"

Lexicographically close words:
chea; cheap; cheape; cheapen; cheapened; cheapens; cheaper; cheapest; cheaping; cheaply
  1. Another was a cheapening of school-books.

  2. By cheapening the ingredients, however, many sell them at 15 cents, which seems to be the popular price.

  3. It must not be supposed that these articles are used in all kinds of cakes, but in certain kinds of cakes they are the needed help, and are not used merely for the purpose of cheapening the cost, but to improve the quality.

  4. Others of our citizens, whose comforts and expenditures are measured by moderate salaries and fixed incomes, will insist upon the fairness and justice of cheapening the cost of necessaries for themselves and their families.

  5. Austria was at that time involved in trouble with her paper money system, and thought the cheapening of gold offered a fair opportunity to come to a metallic basis.

  6. Owing to the cheapening of goods in the public stores, these wages presently purchased twice as much as before.

  7. This it was possible to do, owing to the cheapening of all sorts of commodities by the abolition of profits, without reducing any one's income.

  8. They saw only the cheapening of the product, the vast increase in the total amount produced, and the piling up of profits, and they beheld in all three results nothing but social advantage.

  9. Again, the factory conditions of modern industry have been brought to their present stage with one end in view--economy of time and material with the aim of cheapening the product.

  10. This tendency has been greatly strengthened by the rapid development, and at the same time, the cheapening of the means of transport and communication between distant regions of the country.

  11. They wanted very much the same things; they wanted more of these things year after year; and they immediately rewarded any cheapening of the product by buying it in much larger quantities.

  12. It is merely one of the many means generated by American political practice for cheapening the ballot.

  13. A general cheapening of brass articles has resulted among other causes from the reduction in price of copper.

  14. The screw hand-press so generally used in Birmingham trades was the first great means of cheapening the making of steel pens, which had previously been made by hand, in Sheffield and London.

  15. Choose, then, and do not forget that this cheapening process may be pushed so far as to involve the cheapening of human life and the loss of human happiness.

  16. She is to be seen in the market every morning at ten cheapening fowls, which I observe the Cambridge poulterers are not sufficiently careful to stump.

  17. The poor creature fell into a fit yesterday, while I was cheapening a pair of spectacles, with a Jew-pedlar.

  18. She pretended she was cheapening a stay-hook, but was thrown into such a quandary, that she forgot the most material part of the information; and when she came home, went into an hysteric fit of laughing.

  19. Experience had rendered him morbidly alive to the effect of a man's poverty and other physical disadvantages in cheapening his ideas, unless they are those of a Peter the Hermit who has a tocsin for the rabble.

  20. Perhaps he thought that this was not cheapening his name.

  21. Moreover, the years of a depression are exactly those in which there is always a forced economy, and generally form a period in which cheapening goes on at its best.

  22. Commerce is virtually a mode of cheapening production; and in all such cases the consumer is the person ultimately benefited; the dealer, in the end, is sure to get his profit, whether the buyer obtains much or little for his money.

  23. The cheapening of lace or velvet has no effect in diminishing the cost of labor; and no mode can be pointed out in which it can raise the rate of profit, so as to make room for a larger capital before the minimum is attained.

  24. Long choosing and cheapening ends in buying nothing, or bad wares.

  25. Farewell to all their dreams of cheapening everything: farewell to the boast of their able and principal organ, that they had made the sovereign worth two sovereigns!

  26. The mania of cheapening everything has done it all.

  27. Only because the cheapening system and Free Trade have so paralysed and weakened our resources, that, like the Romans, if we would protect at all the heart of the empire, we must forthwith abandon its extremities.

  28. The cheapening of manufacture by improvements in processes and machinery, and by the increase in the scale of operations, has been very great.

  29. Lake Superior from the cheap coal of Pennsylvania would have handicapped the American iron industry most seriously but for the remarkable cheapening of transportation which has occurred.

  30. The following abstract of the declared value of stockings exported since 1848 will sufficiently indicate the effects of improved machinery in cheapening production:-- Stockings exported.

  31. A sheet of paper equal to four sheets of demy is now worked at the newspaper machine; and sixty-four pages of an octavo book might be so worked, if it were needful for cheapening production.

  32. It was opposed by all the familiar arguments against a cheap press, but that which most endangered its success was a rival proposal to apply any surplus revenue to cheapening soap.

  33. Virginia and Maryland, with their abundance of labor, were competing, and cheapening the article to a price which made its production unprofitable.

  34. When it is built, it will compel a cheapening of freight rates to the advantage of the whole country.

  35. He had contemptuously called Duncan "a rainbow chaser," because that young man had spoken with some enthusiasm of the benefits which the cheapening of freight rates must bring to the people East and West.

  36. They will run more spindles and set more looms agoing than they would have done without the through line's cheapening of raw material.

  37. The farmer in the West will pay less for his cotton goods and get more for his grain because of the through line's cheapening of transportation.

  38. Such is the effect of the cheapening and competition system, in one of our greatest manufacturing towns, in a year of great and unusual commercial prosperity.

  39. Such is the cheapening and competition system in the greatest marts of manufacturing industry, and in a year when provisions were cheap, exports great, and the system devised for its special encouragement in full and unrestrained activity.

  40. It was no cessation of international competition with its acute phase of war that they desired, but rather a cheapening of war, which was becoming too costly.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cheapening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.