7 sentences with 'commodity'

Example sentences and phrases with the word commodity and other words derived from it.


« When the Spanish discovered chicha, they bought and marketed it, turning it into a commodity rather than a ritual substance. »
« Citizenship was a useful commodity, protecting its holders from harsher legal punishments and granting them important political rights. »
« Blood, a vital and, for the moment, irreplaceable tissue, is becoming a scarce commodity in hospitals that needs to be rationed, avoiding unnecessary transfusions. »
« In this case, the Dutch tulip bulb price craze collapsed in the winter of 1637 - 1638, but meanwhile presaged the rise of commodity speculation for centuries to come. »
« In time, much of the Atlantic world would become a giant sugar plantation complex where Africans worked to produce the highly profitable commodity for European consumers. »
« The five-year plans were part of the USSR's new "planned economy", in which every conceivable commodity was produced on the basis of quotas imposed by the vast party bureaucracy in Moscow. »
« Sugar quickly became the colonial commodity, enormously valuable in Europe and relatively easy to cultivate (compared to exotic products such as spices, which could only be obtained from Asian sources). »

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