How to Use supply and demand in a Sentence

supply and demand

noun
  • The first goes back to supply and demand.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The trend, in part, boils down to supply and demand.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • It’s based on supply and demand.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Oct. 2025
  • At the end of the day, costs are driven by supply and demand.
    — Amy Powell, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • But that alone won’t close the vast gap between supply and demand.
    — Josh Salman, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Each day, your body makes breast milk based on the concept of supply and demand.
    — Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 19 July 2024
  • The name of the AI game here is supply and demand.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • That kind of mismatch in supply and demand is what can lead to outages.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 8 Apr. 2024
  • There has to be an audience, there has to be supply and demand.
    — J. Clara Chan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Still, a big part of this really comes down to supply and demand.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 June 2024
  • Airfares are driven far more by supply and demand, not their costs.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 3 July 2024
  • The law of supply and demand says build more housing and the rental prices will collapse.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2026
  • But in this case, the balance is because both supply and demand have come down quite sharply.
    — Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And as in any market, supply and demand matters.
    — Allie Canal, NBC news, 20 May 2026
  • Airline ticket prices are based on supply and demand.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Market prices of all these factors will have to adjust to such shifts in supply and demand.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 17 Nov. 2024
  • This imbalance of supply and demand may well shore up coastal pricing for years to come.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2023
  • In time, rents will come into line as supply and demand come into balance.
    — USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • The Babycatcher spoke like a man with supply and demand very much on his side.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Global supply and demand for corn and soybeans are in balance, by and large.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The price of bitcoin, like any asset, is driven by supply and demand.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Prices are a way to balance supply and demand, and make markets function.
    — Hemant K. Bhargava, Boston Herald, 23 May 2026
  • Since prices are set by supply and demand, more demand causes higher prices.
    — Ben Adler, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
  • In rural areas, the gap between supply and demand will be worse.
    — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Like most goods, cotton pricing is closely tied to supply and demand.
    — Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Inflation has been caused by factors on both the supply and demand sides of the equation.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
  • At the core of the housing puzzle is a supply and demand imbalance.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 18 Sep. 2024
  • With this immense hunger came an imbalance of supply and demand for tickets around the world.
    — Kari McMahon, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2024
  • What has happened to the industry and egg prices is classic supply and demand.
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
  • But again, supply and demand would intervene.
    — Daniel Yergin, Time, 20 June 2026

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