Exorbitant

//ɪɡˈzɔːbɪtənt//

"Exorbitant" in a Sentence (15 examples)

The price of this camera is exorbitant.

That's exorbitant.

This year, the prices are simply exorbitant.

Originally, the salesman named an exorbitant price.

"Glen, do you think people will ever set foot on Mars?" "Shirley, one of the obstacles besides the exorbitant cost is the radiation in space. Astronauts need shielding. We still don't have the technology."

Some generous souls made exorbitant donations that helped save the orphanage.

Crewed expeditions in deep space may be a long time from now, if ever. Zero-gravity conditions and space radiation are deterrents, not to mention the psychological trauma of isolation in outer space and the exorbitant cost financially. The pioneers would have to be fit soldiers.

How are they supposed to pay such an exorbitant fine?

He's selling his car at an exorbitant price.

She throws the most exorbitant parties.

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It’s a nice car, but they are charging an exorbitant price for it.

You also have to pay exorbitant interest if you have credit card debt.

But whatever might be the internal thoughts of Macedonian officers, they held their peace before Alexander [the Great], whose formidable character and exorbitant self-estimation would tolerate no criticism.

Love, being an extremely exacting usurer (a sense of exorbitant profit, spiritually, by an exchange of hearts, being at the bottom of pure passions, as that of exorbitant profit, bodily or materially, is at the bottom of those of lower atmosphere), every morning his feelings were as sensitive as the money-market in calculations upon his chances.

In addition, many low-income people are “unbanked” (not served by a financial institution), and thus nearly eaten alive by exorbitant fees.

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