at a cost

phrase

: by giving up something else

He had achieved fame, but at a cost; he'd lost many friends and no longer talked to anyone in his family.

Examples of at a cost in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The district also renewed its contract with SchoolAI at a cost of $78,650 for the current school year. — Lee V. Gaines, NPR, 28 Sep. 2026

Instead, the agency housed an average of 16 detainees daily there this year, at a cost of millions of dollars, the report found. — Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026

The result meets customer expectations and business objectives better than before, at a cost better than before. — Katherine Kostereva, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026

The inquiry, whose findings were released this week, took almost three years, with some sixty days of hearings and more than a hundred witnesses testifying, at a cost of roughly twenty-four million dollars. — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for at a cost

• holocaust
• permafrost
• accost
• crisscrossed
• defrost
• embossed
• exhaust
• recrossed
• uncrossed
• bossed
• crossed
• dost