7 sentences with 'soared'
Example sentences and phrases with the word soared and other words derived from it.
• « These political expectations rose at the very time when the price of bread soared - 1787 and 1788 had seen very poor harvests, and there was widespread fear of famine. »
• « Businesses closed, governments defaulted on American loans, and unemployment soared. Within a year, Germany's industrial output fell by almost 50% and millions of people were out of work. »
• « For example, even as military spending soared for the US and the Soviet Union, it fell to less than 10% of UK GDP in the early 1960s and declined steadily from there in the years that followed. Also, with the long-term trend of decolonisation, there was no longer a need for large imperial armies to control the colonies. »
• « Gas prices soared, and the incredible post-war economic growth simply ground to a halt, never to regain the momentum it had between 1945 and 1973. »
• « Unemployment soared and the distinctions between legitimate business and illegal or extra-legal trade all but disappeared. »
• « Professional British soldiers had fought alongside Anglo-American militiamen, forging a greater sense of shared identity. With Britain's victory, colonial pride soared as colonists celebrated their identity as British subjects. »