How to Use top dollar in a Sentence

top dollar

noun

• For sellers looking to get top dollar for their home, the time to sell is now.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 17 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• No one pays top dollar for special teams like the Patriots.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• Jean Shafiroff, a philanthropist and socialite in New York City, is used to paying top dollar for clothes.
  — Chavie Lieber, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Then a new private equity firm came in, paid top dollar for the company, and then the growth stopped, Lawson says.
  — Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023
• Fans of the 49ers paint the place red, paying top dollar for seats and triumphantly referring to the place as Levi’s Stadium South.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Hotel chains said tourists are shelling out top dollar for rooms, and cruise lines posted records in onboard spending.
  — Will Feuer, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2022
• Decision made, my father leaps at the first buyer, less eager for top dollar than to close the deal and skedaddle.
  — Longreads, 20 Apr. 2022
• Preparation is key to selling your home for top dollar.
  — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 23 July 2023
• And there are still plenty of examples of pieces that continue to fetch top dollar.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 6 July 2022
• One of the surprises in Correa’s deal was the short nature of the contract, but the Twins wisely paid top dollar on a per-year basis and allowed for the opt-outs.
  — Jared Wyllys, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• The game was sold out, with ticket scalpers getting top dollar in front of Adelphia Stadium.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
• Advanced is getting paid top dollar from both the teachers’ plan and the one for state workers — despite that plan’s reforms.
  — Marshall Allen, ProPublica, 19 Dec. 2019
• While some of the priciest names sold for top dollar have achieved a huge number of monthly visitors, others fell flat.
  — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 24 Feb. 2023
• Many moviegoers also shelled out top dollar to see the film on the biggest screens possible.
  — Lindsey Bahr, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024