How to Use price gouging in a Sentence

price gouging

noun
  • The term for that is price gouging.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • At the very least, the bereaved deserve peace from price gouging.
    — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Amid reports of price gouging, some shelves across the country have started to empty.
    — Michael Rios, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
  • First-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
  • For example, price gouging, supply chain kinks, the war in Ukraine.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • But resentment does not equate to the crime of price gouging under federal or state laws.
    — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • So Newsom should stay his left hand while his right works on preventing gasoline price gouging.
    — Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The stark price difference is not price gouging but a business structure issue.
    — April Quevedo, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Reckless spending plus price gouging equals inflation and a high cost of living.
    — The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Kentucky last year applied its existing price gouging rules to health care staffing agencies.
    — Bram Sable-Smith, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Oil execs rake in profits Are the gas companies price gouging?
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 3 July 2022
  • Some politicians even blame corporate price gouging for the inflated prices.
    — Alice Barlow, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Such sticker shocks frustrate consumers and raise suspicions of price gouging.
    — Greg Petro, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Democrats have decried the price gouging by some institutions with little to show for students.
    — Michael B. Horn, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • At the moment, the legal system may be the only route to address the current spate of insulin price gouging.
    — Danielle Ofri, STAT, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The price gouging could be fueled, in part, by rental pricing software, Carbajal said.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Officials were quick to respond, vowing crackdowns on price gouging.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Harris’ proposals on price gouging, experts have said, would have little short-term impact.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
  • These kind of abuses mean that the department isn't going after oil companies that are price gouging.
    — NBC news, 3 May 2026
  • Companies could also raise prices and just blame it on the tariffs, which corporate critics would call a form of price gouging.
    — Tobias Burns, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Stop the price gouging of housing, property taxes and everyday items.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • The steep rise for India-Pakistan matches has led critics to label it as price gouging.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Bonta urged the public to report instances of price gouging to the AG's office.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The office's ads have covered topics such as Medicaid fraud, opioids, child abuse and price gouging.
    — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 31 July 2022
  • The bill aims to protect consumers from automatic price gouging and unpredictable price spikes.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Food prices have increased dramatically in the last four years, but not because of price gouging or corporate greed.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Yet when these costs inevitably show up in higher prices, some in the legislature accuse small businesses of price gouging.
    — Ryan Gonzalez, Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2026
  • But the state of emergency, put in place along with Kentucky's price gouging laws, will allow a more broad response to the flooding.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2023
  • Trump and his allies have framed Harris’s economic plan to ban price gouging as a form of communist price controls.
    — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Now, some lawmakers are warning of the potential for price gouging, even as experts point to extreme supply shocks.
    — Jessica Dickler,greg Iacurci, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026

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