How to Use expensive in a Sentence

expensive

adjective

• The lights were expensive to install.
• That's about $2 more expensive than this time last year.
  — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The most obvious reason would be not to waste expensive jets.
  — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2023
• Hailey Bieber has a passion(fruit) for fashion, and an expensive one at that.
  — Seventeen, 5 Apr. 2023
• By contrast, cubed stuffing mix, fresh cranberries and dinner rolls are more expensive this year.
  — Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
• Publishing a book is hard and expensive, and requires more than just publicity know-how.
  — Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2024
• While Sakara Life has a lot going for it, its services are a bit more expensive than most other services on this list.
  — Will Franke, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
• That’s much less expensive than Google’s excellent but overpriced $400 Nest Secure system.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 30 Mar. 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
• They’re prized for their flavor and quite expensive to buy.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 11 May 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
• All three colors are on sale, with white being the least expensive.
  — Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 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
• Mornings and evenings tend to be both busier and more expensive, so afternoons are your best bet.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2023
• More:Michigan's top 11 most expensive homes sold in March 6.
  — Detroit Free Press, 9 May 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024