How to Use wage in a Sentence

wage

1 of 2 noun
  • The table and chairs cost two weeks' wages.
  • Both of them make decent wages.
  • The company gave workers a four percent wage increase this year.
  • The company offers competitive wages and good benefits.
  • Those with jobs saw their wage gains cool.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Boomers bought homes when prices were low and wages were steady.
    — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • How big is the gender wage gap now?
    — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Many turn out to be disputes over wages.
    — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Many have been challenged for wage theft.
    — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • The cost of living has grown faster than wages.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • For those who do work, most are in part-time roles with low wages.
    — Our Place, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Who’s against high wages and cheap apartments?
    — Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
  • That’s the mid-point of the upper half of wages.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The iron law that said raising wages kills jobs is dead.
    — Nick Hanauer, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026
  • Health care and wages are among key stumbling blocks.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Home and rental prices have outpaced wages over the last two decades.
    — Elena Moore, NPR, 31 Aug. 2025
  • That’s a huge gap, and low-wage workers fared even worse.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • That’s the first time in three years wages failed to outpace prices.
    — Lee Williamson, Fortune, 13 May 2026
  • But his dream job was never about the wages or the first-class perks.
    — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • Some workers tell her they’re owed wages or they weren’t paid for sick days.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The cost of living is not matching wages of folks.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • At its core, this issue is not simply about wages.
    — Peter Mattes, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The parties also have not agreed on wages.
    — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The labor movements of the past fought for more than wages.
    — Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • What jobs had the wages, but not the applicants?
    — Keonna Yearwood-Branch, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2026
  • What about two 75th percentile wages?
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
  • How can people save when living costs are above wages?
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Yet wage growth has been cooling compared with a year ago.
    — Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Real wages have now fallen for four straight years.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Make strong wages and a healthy climate part of the same campaign.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023

wage

2 of 2 verb
  • They waged a guerrilla war against the government.
  • Local activists are waging a campaign to end homelessness in the region.
  • The mogul was very much still waging wars.
    — Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 16 Jan. 2026
  • This is a fight the league can’t win and shouldn’t even be waging.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Trump has waged war against CBS for months.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Leo then said God doesn’t listen to the prayers of those who wage war.
    — Matthew Lee, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • Leo then said God doesn’t listen to the prayers of those who wage war.
    — ABC News, 5 May 2026
  • Leo then said that God doesn’t listen to the prayers of those who wage war.
    — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • Daniel Ortega and his wife have waged war against the church.
    — David Curry, National Review, 24 Sep. 2023
  • What kinds of debts can lead to wage garnishment in Texas?
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The fight Mitchell waged is not history.
    — Alvin C. Hathaway Sr, Baltimore Sun, 4 May 2026
  • The war is being waged in what, in global terms, are slivers of land.
    — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Then there are those of us whose greatest battles are waged against ourselves.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • This is not the first time that the Trumps have waged war against Kimmel.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2026
  • It’s not lost on the Senate leader that all three have waged statewide campaigns.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The battle over the state’s congressional maps has been waged for half a decade.
    — Ella Lee, The Hill, 5 Oct. 2025
  • But, in the near term, maintaining a firm stand against war and against those who wage it may be achievement enough.
    — Paul Elie, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • Can wage garnishment increase over time?
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • That means waging cognitive warfare on a scale no one else has tried before.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But these are battles that are going to be waged district by district by district.
    — CBS News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • For the past four months, advocates have waged campaigns for boosting the spending side of the ledger.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • But Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't have the right to wage war against civilians.
    — Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The four-day war was brief but fierce, with hostilities waged across vast geographies.
    — Michael Kugelman, Time, 26 June 2026
  • Vijsma has been waging a private war against the tiny invaders.
    — Calmatters, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Guy and Houge have waged write-in campaigns, but write-in campaigns can be difficult to win.
    — Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Finally, this fight is arguably worth waging.
    — Kathy M. Newman, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Both unions waged multi-month strikes against the major studios in 2023.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 2 May 2026
  • Its constitution renounces the right to wage war as a means of settling such disputes.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 19 Mar. 2026
  • These programs are fighting disease, waging peace and building hope.
    — Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The contrarian brigade sometimes seems to be waging a war on irony itself.
    — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026

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