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Example sentences for: costly

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The technique is compatible with high-throughput, automated, detection technologies, as well as traditional, less costly detection methods.
Parents send their kids to costly summer clinics and hire professional coaches.
In this environment, ordering large quantities of products far in advance of the selling season is simply too costly.
For reasons Lind lays out very clearly, domestic politics had powerfully and predictably turned against such a costly war ...
Having screwed up his first term by misjudging the public demand for reform in the far less difficult area of health care, the president would be foolish to present a costly multipoint program on race.