How to Use inelastic in a Sentence

inelastic

adjective
  • So the tax law in New York is inelastic.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • In the near term, the economy’s hunger for oil and gas is inelastic.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • If sales remain steady despite a price hike, demand is inelastic.
    — Lauren Parker, Sourcing Journal, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Each time your neural network learns a task, more of its neurons will become inelastic.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The arms, made of fibreglass and light inelastic polyester, fold up into the shape of a trapezoid.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 May 2015
  • Changes in demand greatly affect the price since supply is inelastic.
    — William Jones, Ascend Agency, 30 Jan. 2026
  • With inelastic demand, barring sales one day of the week means that more product will be sold on each of the six remaining ones.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2017
  • The third method the researchers used, called inelastic neutron scattering spectroscopy, is much less common.
    — Stephanie Demarco, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
  • In a world of more-fluid fandom, Dolan couldn’t count on inelastic demand for his terrible product.
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Consumer goods with inelastic demand Not all consumer goods are good bets during a recession.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Elastic and inelastic collisions are just the two extreme ends of the collision spectrum.
    — WIRED, 11 Oct. 2022
  • But even players like me who love big-budget gaming are dropping more and more of our (completely inelastic) free time into iPhone play.
    — Chris Kohler, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2011
  • Business travel used to be the airlines’ bread and butter, because demand business travel is inelastic.
    — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2017
  • If your product is inelastic, meaning that people will keep buying it regardless of cost, there is little risk involved in raising prices.
    — Rohit Arora, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, gold, typically a hedge against inflation due to its inelastic value, soared.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Such inelastic demand is the reason why private companies in all sectors want to achieve monopoly power or collude to raise price.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
  • The two brothers can thank Chanel for discretely upping the prices of its goods in the face of inelastic demand over the pandemic for the large payouts.
    — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 10 June 2022
  • On the other side of the ledger, oil demand is inelastic and will rapidly rebound to 100m barrels a day (b/d) as economies reopen and jets fly again.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 June 2021
  • Those anxieties are based on the incorrect assumption that demand is fixed, or inelastic, and hence insensitive to price and cost changes.
    — James Manyika and Michael Spence, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Those consuming liquor—a luxury item—could afford to pay a tax, demand was inelastic and distilled spirits had become a public-health threat.
    — Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
  • In markets where the aggregate consumer demand is inelastic, the total of the consumers’ and merchants’ surplus with and without cards are the same.
    — Norbert Michel, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • This is a staple product with few good substitutes, which means demand is inelastic; even a small drop in supply forces a big jump in price before buyer behavior will change.
    — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Eating inadequate protein can lead to muscle loss, inelastic skin, and thin fragile, hair, says Ingram.
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 16 Aug. 2024
  • In the past, conventional wisdom said that demand for healthcare is inelastic — patients will seek healthcare no matter what is happening in the world.
    — Adnan Iqbal, Forbes, 6 July 2021
  • According to their inelastic-markets perspective, the booming day-trading flows of late could have had an impact many times larger than their absolute size.
    — Sam Potter, Bloomberg.com, 26 Sep. 2020
  • There’s no easy substitute for eggs, which makes demand for them inelastic — meaning consumers and businesses generally buy the same amount no matter the cost.
    — Alexandra Byrne, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The story that follows is a delight, as Howard struggles to stretch his inelastic mind to accommodate the uncanny, and deal with it before his wife gets home.
    — Neil McRobert, Vulture, 20 May 2024
  • But companies that sell consumer goods with inelastic demand (an unchanging demand regardless of the times) are usually a good option.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Having failed to predict the commodity downturn in the second half of that year, Brazil’s government was shocked at how inelastic the economy proved to be.
    — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Parents have no choice but to subscribe to the Disney service, and parents also know that there seems to be inelastic demand for Disney’s theme park tickets.
    — Jon C. Ogg, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2017

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