How to Use top dollar in a Sentence

top dollar

noun

• But at least investors no longer need to pay top dollar for the ride.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2019
• For sellers looking to get top dollar for their home, the time to sell is now.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 17 May 2022
• Some of us would surely pay top dollar for an hour or three of rest.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
• Maintenance records: shows the car’s been well cared for to get top dollar.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• In the world's biggest and best cities, rent tends to be high, restaurants can charge top dollar, and a $20 cocktail is the norm.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2021
• The goal of each episode is to help clients find their dream home, but also make top dollar for their current home.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 13 Mar. 2020
• For many, getting top dollar for their homes has been a good feeling.
  — Megan Gorman, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• Your parents or spouse may cajole you to ask for top dollar.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• What better subset of testers than the diehards who are willing to pay top dollar to stay on the cutting edge?
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 18 Sep. 2017
• There's a bit of wear, but only enough to perhaps keep it from going for top dollar.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2022
• This is the start of a 900-mile journey to customers in France, who will pay top dollar for seafood most British people rarely eat.
  — Stephen Castle Andrew Testa, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• In the name of wellness, celebrities are paying top dollar to sit in cold water.
  — Anisa Arsenault, Verywell Health, 3 Feb. 2023
• Prices depend on the vendor but due to the rarity, morels bring top dollar.
  — Brandon Patterson, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2018
• And, most troubling of all, during the pandemic, wealthy patients paid top dollar to jump to the front of the Covid-19 vaccine queue.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• And the way to maximize your leverage and get top dollar is, without question, to get to the market.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• Anyone who paid top dollar to venture to Third and King for a Lincecum start in his heyday knows.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2022
• Some will pay top dollar to have the naming rights on a celebrated stone.
  — Jill Newman, Town & Country, 5 Feb. 2022
• Because of this, even a half-decent T206 will fetch top dollar on the auction market.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021
• But to get his top dollar, Dinwiddie and the Mavericks need to find a way to win eight more games this season.
  — Dallas News, 19 May 2022
• In fact, upper-class purgers pay top dollar to be able to purge in a safe, controlled hunting ground.
  — refinery29.com, 3 July 2018
• No one pays top dollar for special teams like the Patriots.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• The car owners who paid top dollar to avoid traffic would demand to expand the highway.
  — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 7 Sep. 2018
• Jean Shafiroff, a philanthropist and socialite in New York City, is used to paying top dollar for clothes.
  — Chavie Lieber, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2022
• Notice that the Pats once again are refusing to pay top dollar for receivers.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• The rich have fled or remained as shut-ins, paying top dollar to have their goods and groceries delivered.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 10 June 2020
• This year, only three of the players who commanded top dollar changed teams.
  — Carol Schram, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
• There’s a pretty clear dividing line after the top five, so be prepared to pay top dollar for them.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
• For the past five years, these top-end (and top dollar) models tuned for racing fast marathons have sucked up all the shoe-innovation air.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• These top-notch beds often come at top dollar, which is why this long week's deals on mattresses are much needed to alleviate that burden.
  — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2024
• However, that advantage is heavily handicapped when companies have to pay top dollar to bring those customers on board in the first place.
  — Aasim Saeed, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024