Example sentences for: prohibitive

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

  • The main problem, says the paper, is that the law doesn't control how much companies can charge for such gap coverage, so they are tending to make it prohibitive.

  • In an editorial, the Star noted that police in the British city of Leeds had sent Christmas cards to convicted thieves warning them they were being kept under surveillance but said this couldn't happen in South Africa because "the overwhelming number of those qualified to receive such cards would make the cost prohibitive."

  • Using all deaths as an endpoint avoids these biases but leads to prohibitive sample sizes as shown in the following calculations based on a power of 80% and a one-sided type I error of 2.5%.

  • In practice cream skimmers may restrict themselves to large volume customers since the transaction costs of dealing with smaller volume customers and individuals may be prohibitive.

  • Even if you cannot afford the often prohibitive prices, they’re worth visiting as veritable little museums of Renaissance and Baroque sculpture and furniture.


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