How do you use Expensive in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like costly or valuable, plus the exact meaning.
Expensive in a sentence
Related words
Expensive meaning
- Having a high price or cost.
- Taking a lot of system time or resources.
- Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.
Example sentences (20)
All in all, the tri-slot card is by far the most expensive RTX 4070 TI available to buy off major retailers currently.
All of these factors add up to make prescription drugs one of the most expensive items in our healthcare system.
A council spent £40,000 on architects to design a plan to upgrade Oban town centre – only to realise it’s too expensive.
Again, spending on in-memory cloud services is more expensive than using your database to provide the results.
A big part of the reason why is that recalibrating cameras and sensors can be both complicated and expensive.
A default can result in credit rating downgrades, making it more expensive for the U.S. government to borrow in the future.
After all, people are not selling their homes to avoid the risks of having to take on an expensive mortgage for a new home.
A CCS tax credit makes fossil fuels cheaper to produce and sell, and therefore cheaper and less expensive to buy and consume.
A bottle of the world's most expensive whisky could fetch up to £1.2 million at auction next month.
According to rumours, the man wanted to transform it into a but was unable to finish his expensive project so just left it by the beach.
A hip or knee replacement at Nordorthopaedics in Lithuania is about 15% more expensive now than five years ago, the clinic told Reuters.
EVs and newer, more technologically advanced carsmore expensive to repair and therefore more expensive to insure.
A 100% renewable green power option was available but not selected as it is more expensive, according to Township Supervisor Dan Venturi.
Alma said: “We used the Foundry for a couple of weeks but it was proving a bit too expensive.
The most expensive state for car insurance is Michigan and the least expensive state is North Carolina, Connolly said.
These teas are both rare and expensive, and can be compared to some of the most expensive wines in this respect.
All options to move pillars to the park are more expensive than keeping them where they are.
The most expensive supermarket was Waitrose, where the total came to £91.15, making it £16.57 more expensive than Lidl.
A Cornwall town has been ranked among the top five most expensive seaside locations in the UK for buyers, according to data from Rightmove.
The highest justices in our system accused of improprieties — of taking expensive gifts, expensive vacations,” she said.
Phrases with expensive
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with expensive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- more expensive 58×
- most expensive 48×
- expensive than 20×
- expensive to 15×
- less expensive 12×
- expensive and 11×
- too expensive 11×
- and expensive 10×
- expensive for 10×
- an expensive 10×
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The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word expensive. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.