Sentence examples for prices spike from inspiring English sources
Failing to plotz when gasoline prices spike is not.
Some of them, for instance, watched prices spike to $750 per MWh on 12 summer afternoons.
Meat is getting more expensive after the global grain prices spike of this summer.
People don't immediately start driving less when gasoline prices spike — they just pay more for gasoline.
During times of peak demand, when utilities must fire up their least efficient plants, prices spike.
Whenever gas prices spike, calls mount to increase oil production in the United States.
If energy prices spike during the summer, the state might have to ask Wall Street for even more money.
"When fuel prices spike like this, they have to make choices that they shouldn't have to make.
If gas prices spike again, are they ready with smaller automobiles that were in hot demand during 2008?
"Wall St. Exploits Ethanol Credits, and Prices Spike" (front page, Sept. 15) appropriately scrutinizes developing energy markets.
Energy-rich states build up rainy-day reserves when prices spike, as oil did in the previous decade.
