How to Use standard of living in a Sentence

standard of living

noun phrase
  • Their children could work again, which would raise their standard of living.
    — Rana Wehbe Watson, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Japan muddled through decades of low growth and high debt with a good standard of living and not much job loss.
    — Allison Schrager, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The agency is grasping for ways to improve the standard of living.
    — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The standard of living is going to be lower than their parents’.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The standard of living has also gone up so that more people can afford to travel.
    — Lea Lane, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • How will the pay affect your standard of living or taxes in the new location?
    — Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 14 May 2025
  • And that means our children and grandchildren will have a lower standard of living.
    — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Their standard of living, known as their real wage, had declined during the prior four years.
    — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • That means seniors will probably see a drop, again, in their standard of living, experts said.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Raising our standard of living is the best way to protect our environment.
    — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • As a result, workers enjoyed a strong job market and higher standards of living.
    — Barbara Hagenbaugh, USA Today, 22 June 2026
  • But earnings — by themselves — do not promise a good standard of living if students leave school with thousands in debt to pay off.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
  • Economic growth has slowed in the first half of the year; in the long term, slowing growth worsens people’s standard of living.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The earnings are indexed to the change in overall wage levels and the rise in the nation's standard of living while you were employed.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • Workers may find new jobs, but if those positions pay substantially less, their standard of living falls.
    — Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2024
  • Americans are staring down a disruption to their standard of living.
    — Erica Pandey, Axios, 5 Apr. 2025
  • With the economy on the rise, some members of the middle class enjoyed a more comfortable standard of living.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 13 June 2024
  • In a period of deflation, whose standard of living rises?
    — David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Young families face relentless pressure just to maintain their standard of living.
    — Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Chile has a higher standard of living than most of its neighbors and is an attractive destination for migrants.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2025
  • My agenda will raise people’s standard of living and expectations of the public servant.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • However, there are people who exist under the radar and below a comfortable standard of living.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 10 Sep. 2024
  • But the main source of anger is the economy – moribund in both countries, where standards of living are stagnating, or worse, for many citizens.
    — Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2025
  • Even small declines in growth rates over time can cumulatively have large impacts on our incomes and standards of living – and the declines may not be so small.
    — Harry Holzer, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • With plenty of natural light, the apartments provide a quality standard of living.
    — Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
  • According to council leaders, the bill would guarantee that workers achieve a basic standard of living.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Combined, the couple’s fortunes flourished to an extent that eclipsed even the senator’s prior standard of living.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • This is the classic useless expenditure from the standard of living perspective.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The damage this policy is doing to our standard of living as a nation is huge, and the danger to our sovereignty and safety as a nation is enormous.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
  • When men are at war, their families’ standard of living drops, psychological problems arise at home, and fewer children are born.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2022

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