Expensively is an English word with synonyms like cheaply. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Expensively meaning
In an expensive manner.
Synonyms of Expensively
Using Expensively
- The main meaning on this page is: In an expensive manner.
- Useful related words include: cheaply.
- In the example corpus, expensively often appears in combinations such as: expensively assembled, less expensively, and expensively.
Context around Expensively
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Expensively
- In this selection, "expensively" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, less, longer, hosts, assembled, valued and went stand out and add context to how "expensively" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about his expensively assembled team and against their expensively assembled hosts. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "expensively" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with expensively
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Have your expensively assembled squad of pampered prima donnas been slacking off? (12 words)
A financial application for Kairo ‘painfully and expensively’ went through court over two years. (14 words)
A depleted Shrimpers – who were lacking five first team players – more than held their own against their expensively assembled hosts. (20 words)
Using a large robotic 3D printer, which was running in the background as public and company officials spoke on Friday, communities can build homes from concrete “quicker, less expensively and of a higher quality,” said Gov. Jared Polis in his remarks. (41 words)
With five of the club’s eight January signings in the staring XI, Potter saw his team labour to find any invention against a Saints side set up by interim boss Ruben Selles to frustrate the hosts’ expensively assembled attacking cavalry. (41 words)
This is due to the city's isolation and heavy dependence on expensively imported supplies as the city, like the rest of Nunavut, has no road, rail, or even ship connections for part of the year to the rest of Canada. (41 words)
Have your expensively assembled squad of pampered prima donnas been slacking off? (12 words)
Example sentences (18)
Lampard, a former Chelsea player and manager, has been appointed interim coach until the end of the season after the firing of Graham Potter and is still learning about his expensively assembled team that is languishing in 11th place.
On the back of AI Fastly's content delivery network seeing increased demand, meanwhile, its stock is no longer expensively valued.
Using a large robotic 3D printer, which was running in the background as public and company officials spoke on Friday, communities can build homes from concrete “quicker, less expensively and of a higher quality,” said Gov. Jared Polis in his remarks.
With five of the club’s eight January signings in the staring XI, Potter saw his team labour to find any invention against a Saints side set up by interim boss Ruben Selles to frustrate the hosts’ expensively assembled attacking cavalry.
A depleted Shrimpers – who were lacking five first team players – more than held their own against their expensively assembled hosts.
Admittedly this tradition is now under pressure, partly due to the commercial world’s desire to have us celebrate expensively up to Christmas, then move on quickly afterwards.
A financial application for Kairo ‘painfully and expensively’ went through court over two years.
It was produced not by using the classical method, in which fermentation takes place twice, including once in the bottle—but less expensively by using autoclaves to control pressure.
Coppola was 31 at the time, determined to convince Evans and the studio to allow him to film expensively in New York, set in the time period of a novel which would become a big bestseller.
We chose to fly – more expensively – from London City airport as we reckoned there would be fewer travellers in the departure areas and the plane would be much smaller.
In short, the festival team was playing catch-up from day one, all the while advertising, selling and hastily upgrading eye-popping expensively packages that they could never possibly deliver upon.
When you see most women laughing with well made up faces and expensively clothed bodies, you don’t know the nightmare they’re masking.
Have your expensively assembled squad of pampered prima donnas been slacking off?
Rather than expensively process gas for domestic and other uses, major oil companies resort to the cheaper option of flaring gas a waste product.
Some applauded the grand statement, which if it had gone as planned (video) would have turned an expensively purchased piece of art into paper ribbons instead of a partially shredded work.
He proposed making log rafts to move lumber down the narrow Indian Creek, in order to transport the logs more easily and less expensively than overland.
This apparent disparity between the documentary and instrumental evidence can be explained by the fact that, in general, only the more expensively made guitars have been kept as collectors' pieces.
This is due to the city's isolation and heavy dependence on expensively imported supplies as the city, like the rest of Nunavut, has no road, rail, or even ship connections for part of the year to the rest of Canada.
Common combinations with expensively
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: