Example sentences for: prohibitive

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

  • These prices appear prohibitive at first sight in a country, which only spends a few dollars/person/year for health care.

  • Barriers to entry in terms of technology and physical plant are prohibitive, which keeps domestic competitors out of the business.

  • 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%.

  • Microarray data analyses have been criticized as being "quite elusive about measurement reproducibility" [ 30 ] . This is largely the consequence of the large number of uncontrolled or unknown variables, and the prohibitive cost of isolating and investigating each variable.

  • "Anything that costs more than 5 cents is prohibitive," says Head Librarian Rebecca Oliver.


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