inventories
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“A cease-fire may reopen shipping lanes, it does not immediately replenish inventories, restore damaged infrastructure or normalize trade flows.”
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Others cite soft demand signals, high Chinese inventories and elevated long positions—or bets among investors that prices will rise—as reasons for caution.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
“A cease-fire may reopen shipping lanes, it does not immediately replenish inventories, restore damaged infrastructure or normalize trade flows.”
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Under normal circumstances, oil prices could have risen “substantially,” given the scale of the disruption, including the closure of the strait, constrained Iranian crude supply and declining global inventories, Innes said.
From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026
These are the ones that repeatedly turn up in style guides, pet-peeve lists, newspaper language columns, irate letters to the editor, and inventories of common errors in student papers.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
![]()