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

Despite the concern from residents, the city council voted to renew the contract at a cost of $72,000 for two years, The Detroit News reported. — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 11 July 2026

Meta is building its first large Canadian data center, a 1-gigawatt facility in Alberta's Sturgeon County, at a cost of around $9 billion and a two-to-three-year construction timeline. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 9 July 2026

The Tollway plans to build a full interchange at a cost of $132 million. — Marni Pike, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026

The council responded to that lawsuit by voting to retain the law firm Hecker Fink to defend the Ethics Commission, at a cost of $120,000. — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026

Rhymes for at a cost

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