How to Use expensive in a Sentence

expensive

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• The lights were expensive to install.
• Following the expensive day, the two apparently capped their busy day of shopping with a wild night at the club.
  — Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• Where was child care (probably) most expensive in 2018?
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• That’s a new all-time low price for a very good robot vacuum with obstacle avoidance that's as good as its more expensive competitors.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2024
• For a time, the princesses had enjoyed relative freedom, studying at expensive schools and travelling with their mother.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
• Tokamaks for power plants will probably not need to be as gargantuan, and certainly cannot be as expensive, as ITER.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• The Colts come in as the second least expensive day at the game.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2023
• The city was found to be 1.7% more expensive than New York.
  — Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2024
• Sure, there's always the salon, but that's a) expensive, and b) a trek.
  — Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 7 July 2023
• Tampons and pads are expensive and hard to find, and there is nowhere to dispose of them.
  — Qadri Inzamam Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• Here are some spots in Times Square that are offering some of the more expensive ways to kick off 2024.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 27 Dec. 2023
• Due to the high standards and deluxe features, this chair is one of the more expensive options on the market.
  — Casey Seiden, Parents, 28 June 2023
• This is a splurge purchase as the most expensive on our list, but the investment will last for a long time.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2023
• Books are not just all cheaper or more expensive versions of the same thing.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• This team, the most expensive in NBA history, had to scrap and claw to make the play-in tournament.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
• The specialized files that file both the cutter and reduce the height of the depth gauge/raker are more expensive.
  — Joe Truini, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
• China’s bullet trains are still less expensive than those in the West.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 13 May 2024
• My dream was to put the original version over the end credits, but that was too expensive.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
• WalletHub is out with a survey of the most and least expensive energy states for 2023.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 7 July 2023
• His local managers didn’t like this plan, which was expensive and would take the tracks out of service for months.
  — Danelle Morton, ProPublica, 18 Nov. 2023
• But the company has since cut the price down to $999 in a sign that the public has little appetite for expensive VR gear.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 June 2023
• The work set a new record for the artist—and became the most expensive Impressionist piece sold at auction.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2024
• Purchasing enough coins to buy the most expensive gifts on TikTok can cost over $500.
  — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
• With prices up a full 57 percent in August alone, why not swim with the current and see what the most expensive and rare Day-Dates are looking like?
  — Blake Buettner, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2024
• In a 2016 essay for Salon, Klebanow said Trump took her out to an expensive restaurant but didn’t have cash to pay the bill.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
• This drug class is safer for older people but may be more expensive.
  — Alex Yampolsky, Verywell Health, 5 Aug. 2024
• The state with the most expensive gas in the country on Wednesday was California.
  — Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 June 2024
• And the other thing is that these drugs are extremely expensive.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• This piece of furniture, while expensive upfront, can give you a good cost per use.
  — Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2023
• The AirPods Max are also down below $500, which is rare for the trendy but expensive headphones.
  — Ellen McAlpine, Men's Health, 27 June 2023

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024