Example sentences for: costliest

How can you use “costliest” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It was hardly the most enlightened of times, not with the "conflict in Indochina" rapidly becoming America's costliest and most divisive war.

  • The Times says that with his State of the Union and now this budget, Clinton has moved into a policy vacuum created by a year of scandal and the Republicans' failure during that time to offer their own coherent response to the long-term problems of the nation's costliest domestic programs.

  • The NYT reports that UPS is losing between $30-$50 million a day, and the LAT says the dispute "is on its way to becoming the biggest and costliest strike in a generation."

  • One of the costliest made-for-TV movies--a telling of the King Arthur legend from the wizard's perspective--is judged one of the best.

  • The lawsuits, modeled on those successfully brought by several state governments in recent years, constitute, in the words of the LAT , a "major new assault" in what is already history's costliest collection of cases.


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