How to Use at the cost of in a Sentence

at the cost of

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  • The Nightshade edition is the XLE with black styling accents at the cost of about $1100.
    Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2023
  • There are multiple ways of looking at the cost of the Afghanistan War.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
  • But not at the cost of losing what’s special about our sport.
    J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Success doesn’t have to come at the cost of your soul, your sanity or your health.
    Elaine Welteroth, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
  • This comes at the cost of taking up more space, even when fully folded.
    Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
  • And when Mitch White became available, the Giants pounced to add the 29-year-old righty at the cost of Cobb’s efforts to race back.
    Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2024
  • More lighting can help them out of poverty, but at the cost of a larger increase in sky glow.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2023
  • He’s certainly made those on the right feel more at home, but he’s done so at the cost of the site’s traditional base of users.
    Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 13 June 2023
  • The plays express concern for the destruction of the natural world at the cost of human life.
    Time, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Lamborghini avoids these issues at the cost of brake feel that goes spongy at track speeds.
    Dan Carney, Popular Science, 5 July 2023
  • Other insurers had also balked at the cost of CAR-T and were slow to cover it.
    Maya Miller, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2023
  • She’s achieved male validation, but at the cost of her own self-image.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
  • However, this comes at the cost of a higher price tag and less intense flavors.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • However, this comes at the cost of a higher price tag and less intense flavors.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The Heat instead operate where the move is trading for Terry Rozier at the cost of a first-round pick, as well.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 31 July 2024
  • Innovation should not come at the cost of the core business model.
    Expert Panel, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Placing a tent on a truck bed rack behind the cab of a truck, but beneath the roof line will mitigate the impact, but at the cost of bed space.
    Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
  • There were also plenty of people who were quick to defend A.I. and its place in the workforce—but not at the cost of human jobs.
    Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 12 July 2023
  • For $80, the sound profile is clean, leaving plenty of space for all tones at the cost of underpowered bass.
    Dan Roe, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2023
  • That month, Tsunami had liberated just under a mile of Ukraine, but at the cost of 15 lives and many injuries.
    Bob Seely, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Hina’s powers might be able to fix the erratic weather pouring down on Tokyo, but at the cost of her own life.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
  • That came at the cost of waiving center Orlando Robinson from his two-way deal.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The consensus thought was that adding him — even at the cost of Thompson — would take the Dubs, who were knocking on the door of contention in the Western Conference, over the top.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 12 June 2024
  • Those in need of extra oomph, albeit at the cost of range and efficiency, can also nab the sportback in sporty S guise.
    Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 13 Jan. 2023
  • With Max Muncy on first, the play kept the Dodgers from advancing him into scoring position, but at the cost of an injury to Judge.
    Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
  • In a recent poll, more Americans balked at the cost of an EV than were worried about range or simply preferred gas.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2024
  • But this unanticipated assistance comes at the cost of the fetch rover.
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2023
  • That would give researchers far more insight into how these systems behave, at the cost of far more data to process.
    Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
  • This enforces good design, but at the cost of creativity.
    PCMAG, 28 Sep. 2024
  • What Walz did do tonight is lock in from the jump as the Midwestern everyman and smoothed off his own crowd-pleasing rough edges at the cost of being on defense more than offense.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024

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