How to Use price war in a Sentence

price war

noun
  • The airlines are engaged in another price war.
  • At first blush, a price war would be bad news for crypto firms.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Smaller chains can’t compete well in the price wars.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • Not more than two months ago they were engaged in a bruising oil price war.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 2 June 2020
  • The robotaxi price war is here.
    — Kim Komando, FOXNews.com, 21 Feb. 2026
  • In Britain a price war between the largest providers may at last cause prices to drop.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • But price wars there have caused heavy losses and oversupply of bikes.
    — Eliot Brown, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • The end result was high prices, backed up by mutual threat of a price war.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But oversupply and brutal price wars at home have forced them to find new markets.
    — Xiaoying You, semafor.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • This year, that price war looks set to reach across the Pacific Ocean.
    — Billy Perrigo, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Private label is becoming the weapon of choice in price wars.
    — Louis Biscotti, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • That started to change in earnest last year when a brokerage price war kicked into high gear.
    — Matt Phillips, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2020
  • Despite slim margins, the price war doesn’t appear to be abating.
    — Laura He, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
  • That was coupled with a price war leading to a surplus of oil on the global market.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The effects of its costly price war with T-Mobile seem to be ebbing.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
  • China’s carmakers are reigniting a fraught price war in a bid to reverse a slump in sales.
    — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 1 Mar. 2026
  • This marked the end of the price war and the birth of the OPEC+ alliance.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Those two market leaders and others have engaged in fierce price wars this year in China.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune Asia, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The size and speed of India’s growth spurt owes a lot to the price war Reliance Jio set off.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • This is how a price war develops, which leads to less revenue, profit and fewer jobs and money to go around.
    — Gabriel Smith, Forbes, 5 July 2021
  • The outcome of the price war will reverberate beyond the oil sector.
    — Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Late last year, Robinhood helped spark a price war between the other big-time retail brokers.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The three companies selected by Seattle were in the thick of a price war to lure more riders.
    — Mark Harris, WIRED, 14 June 2018
  • For example, cellphone-plan prices fell sharply this spring due to a price war among providers, but the effects were expected to ease.
    — Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Is the current oil price weakness the beginning of a new price war, and/or heralding a new, lower price level?
    — Michael Lynch, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • And an epic oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia made things even worse.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 6 July 2021
  • An epic price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia made things even worse.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 30 June 2021
  • This has already triggered an inference price war in China, which will likely spill over to the rest of the world.
    — Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • First, the oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia hit home.
    — Glenn Minnis, Washington Examiner, 25 June 2020
  • The back-and-forth is reminiscent of a price war waged by the two bus companies in the early 90s.
    — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 30 Jan. 2018

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