Sentence examples for prices for staples from inspiring English sources

The prices for staples are soaring.

The extreme weather destroyed crops, pushing up prices for staples like grain and meat.

As a result, street prices for staples such as bread and tomatoes have doubled in less than two weeks.

Kroger and other supermarket operators have been raising prices for staples, a risky move because it could alienate shoppers already pinched by higher prices for gasoline.

Despite subsidies intended to help the poor, prices for staples, such as milk, bread, rice, yogurt and vegetables, have at least doubled since the beginning of the year.

Prices for staples such as corn and wheat have risen nearly 50% on international markets since June, triggered by severe droughts in the US and Russia, and weak monsoon rains in Asia.

Poorer residents, meanwhile, struggle to survive in makeshift housing, unable to afford the eye-watering prices for basic staples such as milk and tomatoes.

By 1988, Poland's economy was in shambles as prices for basic staples rose sharply and inflation soared.

The charity warned that prices for staple foods including corn and wheat would more than double in two decades unless action were taken.

The Islamists, defined by their vision of a fundamentalist theocracy, exploited legitimate economic grievances: prices for staple foods, little employment for the educated.

Still, although meat will get more expensive, plentiful supplies of rice mean little chance of a rerun of 2008, when a spike in prices for staple foods caused widespread unrest.