How to Use costly in a Sentence

costly

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• The decision to wait could be a costly mistake.
• They won the game, but their best player was injured, so it was a costly victory.
• It was too costly to fix her car after the accident, so she decided to buy a new car instead.
• We use less costly materials in our products.
• Others said the existing rules mean producing housing takes too long and is too costly.
  — oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2023
• Ukraine wants to make Russia's advances as costly as possible.
  — Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 15 Jan. 2023
• At least two forms deal with student loans and tuition, financial obligations that can be costly and overwhelming.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2023
• Constant upkeep of the vessel would be more costly than investing in a new ship, according to the project proposal.
  — Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Jan. 2023
• Dismantling them would be difficult and costly and, Schieren thinks, unlikely.
  — Sarah Sax, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
• Because of their different design, not many office buildings work for conversion, and even for those that do, the process can be difficult and costly.
  — Catherine Carlock, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
• Layoffs are surprisingly costly—and Meta’s latest figures are not the most expensive.
  — Alice Hearing, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
• However, filing lawsuits can be difficult, costly and time-consuming.
  — Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Dec. 2024
• Rather than sticking with costly legacy IT infrastructure, teams can opt for innovation.
  — Tal Dagan, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
• The Direct Express card helps people avoid costly check cashing fees and can easily be used to buy groceries, pay bills, and get cash at thousands of locations.
  — Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
• The process, which also involved many rituals and prayers, was costly and thus typically reserved for elites, nobility and officials.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2023
• And water depths off the California coast compound the problem, as projects will have to utilize floating technology that’s less proven and more costly to deploy.
  — Roger Conrad, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Jason Goldstein, a lawyer for The Onion’s parent company, said in court that the delay after the conclusion of the auction had been costly.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2024
• But getting the technology to follow open-ended commands reliably remains a challenge, with the risk that errors could translate into costly and hard-to-undo mistakes.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024
• Regulation and government control can discourage new development, make housing more costly, and have fewer rental units available.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2023
• Still, the Bud Light saga has been a costly one for the brewer.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
• The Rays worked two walks to begin the game and both free passes proved costly.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 5 July 2024
• But in the long run, not leveraging AI at all will be even costlier.
  — Alon Goren, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• Renting near the beach has never looked so good — or so costly.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2024
• Analysts have said the months of bloody fighting in Bakhmut have been costly for both sides.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• More chefs will get out of the hamster wheel of costly meal creation and will set up shop in smaller, more low-key places.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 28 Mar. 2023
• The sale of assets, including the home, cars, etc., can also be costly.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 7 May 2024
• The final preseason game against the Chiefs was costly for the Browns from an injury standpoint.
  — cleveland, 26 Aug. 2023
• Over the years, tech titans have incurred costly fines in the millions, even billions at times.
  — Adriana Lee, WWD, 4 Nov. 2024
• Caveat: The numbers in last week's report are estimates and hosting the Games could grow more costly over the next decade.
  — Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 16 July 2024
• Rebuilding the span will be a costly endeavor, but bills for the cleanup process have started to come in, too.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024