Expensive

//ɪkˈspɛnsɪv//

"Expensive" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Whenever I find something I like, it's too expensive.

It's too expensive!

Justice is expensive.

If you think education is expensive, wait till you see what ignorance costs you.

Your watch is more expensive than mine.

The shoes you are wearing look rather expensive.

Beef is expensive nowadays.

Meat is very expensive nowadays.

There was an expensive camera left in the classroom.

Fish and meat are both nourishing, but the latter is more expensive than the former.

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If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.

In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.

an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm

[…] And that he looked into his own affairs, and underſtood them; That he had, when abroad, been very expenſive; and contracted a large debt (for he made no ſecret of his affairs); […]

[…] thus naturally generous and expenſive, he ſquandered away his money, and made a moſt ſplendid appearance upon the receipt of his quarterly appointment; […]

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