Sample sentences for DEFLATION

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Definition

a general decline in prices

Between 1930-1933 the United States rate of deflation was about 10 percent per year.

Japan suffered from deflation in the 1990s.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
Thomas Jefferson
The sense of deflation made her feel ridiculous.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
Alan had the feeling, looking at Brad's deflation, that this was among the bigger disappointments of his life.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
I follow the same tortured trajectory over and over—from my rush of disbelieving joy to my crashing deflation.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
It was because she was groggy, she told herself, that this awful sense of deflation snuck in.
J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
GUIL: No. Deflation.
Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
But he was too well-practiced in self-deflation, so said, —I'll be part of the team.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King

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