Words similar to expensive

Example sentences for: expensive

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

Being that airline tickets, even a bereavement fare, purchased at the last minute can be quite expensive, I opted to cash in my voucher."
25 for a woman's blouse, even though (under the theory we're currently entertaining) they are equally expensive for the cleaner to handle.
However, some regions of the world experiencing high incidence of brucellosis may not have access to the expensive machinery and expertise necessary for fluorescent detection of amplicons.
The boldface headwords, alas in sansserif type (making it difficult to read words like Pilling, pillion, pilliwinkle, Illinois , etc., because the lower-case i resembles lower-case l , which is hard to distinguish from capital I ), are followed by pronunciations printed in blue, with variants in black, an expensive but worthwhile idea that works if you are not reading in a dim light.
An article deplores modern libraries for buying too many expensive, hard-to-use computers and too few books: "Unique, anomalous, unconventional knowledge" is being lost.