ECONOMY in a Sentence

Learn ECONOMY 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.
204 example sentences for ECONOMY, such as:
1. The economy is beginning to revive.
2. It will save me a world of trouble and economy.
3. Lately I have been taking stock of my internal economy.
4. The islands' economy is largely dependent upon tourism.
5. It wants the government to take action to boost the economy.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ECONOMY
economy
 n.  the efficient use of resources
 n.  frugality in the expenditure of money or resources
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  Lately I have been taking stock of my internal economy.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
2  When first Mr. Bennet had married, economy was held to be perfectly useless, for, of course, they were to have a son.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50
3  Mrs. Bennet had no turn for economy, and her husband's love of independence had alone prevented their exceeding their income.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50
4  It will save me a world of trouble and economy.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 59
5  Such relief, however, as it was in her power to afford, by the practice of what might be called economy in her own private expences, she frequently sent them.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 61
6  By which the reader may conceive an idea of the ingenuity of that people, as well as the prudent and exact economy of so great a prince.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III.
7  Body number two, said they must take everything on political economy.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
8  I have been a liberal housekeeper enough, but I shall not be ashamed to practise economy now.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  By moderation and economy, and bringing down your wants to your income, and all that.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  They haven't no more philosophy nor political economy about 'em than that,' said the beadle, snapping his fingers contemptuously.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  The owner is obviously a muscular man, left-handed, with an excellent set of teeth, careless in his habits, and with no need to practise economy.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
12  It is in this manner that, in the blindness of a poor political economy, we drown and allow to float down stream and to be lost in the gulfs the well-being of all.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
13  Political economy therein spies a detritus, social philosophy there beholds a residuum.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
14  The street-lantern, situated directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some economy in illumination.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE
15  Marius' economy was severe, and that word had its absolute meaning for Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET
Example Sentence: (177 in 12 pages)
1  The assumptions made about the economy's rate of growth proved to be incorrect.
2  It wants the government to take action to boost the economy.
3  The administration may try to reflate the economy next year.
4  Not many people agree with the government's prediction that the economy will improve.
5  We approach the end of the year with the economy slowing and little sign of cheer.
6  It is reasonable to assume the economy will continue to improve.
7  Whoever wins the election is going to have a tough job getting the economy back on its feet.
8  The trade deficit is the flip side of a rapidly expanding economy.
9  Another poor harvest could turn the country's economy upside down.
10  The islands' economy is largely dependent upon tourism.
11  The dollar has fallen in value amid rumors of weakness in the US economy.
12  They had to reflate with a view to stimulate their domestic economy.
13  His country desperately needs Western aid to restore its ailing economy.
14  The economy is beginning to revive.
15  Analysts believe that worries about the economy are overdone.