Cost

//ˈkɒst//

"Cost" in a Sentence (29 examples)

This will cost €30.

The cost of life increased drastically.

Are you sure about the cost of that car?

How much will it cost to get to the airport?

Bank robbery will cost you ten years in prison.

The cost of operating schools continued to rise.

The cost of flying overseas has risen with the cost of fuel.

Could you add the cost to my room bill?

We have to reduce the cost to a minimum.

We must think about these plans in terms of what they would cost.

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This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.

It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world.

Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].

Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.

the packaging of home-delivered products now accounts for 30% of the solid rubbish the US generates annually, and the cardboard alone costs 1bn trees.

though it cost me ten nights' watchings

to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe

LUKE: "That little droid is going to cost me a lot of trouble."

I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.

I can give you the names, but it'll cost you.

That's going to cost you!

The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.

We have to cut costs if we want to avoid bankruptcy.

The average cost of a new house is twice as much as it was 20 years ago.

According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health.

The army won the battle decisively, but at a cost of many lives.

We simply do not have the option to return to a lower economic level, at least not a rational option. Peer polity competition drives increased complexity and resource consumption regardless of costs, human or ecological.

betwixt the costs of a ship

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