Sentence examples for was a commodity from inspiring English sources

That was a commodity strictly controlled in the early 1930s.

"In the mid-1980s, when I started buying from her, fish was a commodity," Müller said.

For centuries it was a commodity harvested by slaves and refined into something white.

But now the act of purchase, publicly done, was a commodity.

I don't think I ever thought that "funny" was a commodity that I could use.

Shaker style was a commodity almost as soon as Shakerism was a cult.

That suggests rising inflation was the consequence of a "decoupled" world economy in which emerging economies were booming even as America stumbled, and a misguided monetary regime that linked the two.The upshot was a commodity-price spike and a rise in inflation the world over even as the financial crisis was deepening in rich countries.

He was a commodities trader.

Journalism is a commodity.

Simple security is a commodity.

They are a commodity.