How to Use at a cost in a Sentence

at a cost

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• Ads would close the gap, but at a cost.
  — Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• This could be seen as democratising, but this comes at a cost.
  — Shain Shapiro, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
• But the Niners found it at a cost.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
• Each ticket tier comes with a few more perks — at a cost, of course.
  — Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 23 July 2025
• All of this will come at a cost, though—and a pretty steep one at that.
  — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• Space for four people, across two rooms, at a cost of $250 per night.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2023
• Whether time, money or other resources, change comes at a cost.
  — James Itkoff, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• Yale became the idea, even at a cost of $78,000 a year.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2026
• Parking on the festival grounds is available at a cost.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Cots are free and additional beds can be added to the suites at a cost of $175.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026
• Three years later, the Chinese line opened at a cost of $36 billion.
  — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
• The state will lease Laurel Park racetrack for three years at a cost of one dollar per year.
  — Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2025
• The Senators got a win over the New York Rangers, but at a cost.
  — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
• The Miami Dolphins won their first game of the season - but at a cost.
  — Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
• Jackson did most of the wolf howls himself The album came together in a scant two months – at a cost.
  — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 4 Jan. 2025
• When a fiber breaks, and most will at some point, it’s repaired, often at a cost of millions or even tens of millions of dollars.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026
• The zoo will host the black-and-white duo under a loan from China for the next decade, at a cost of $1 million a year.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024
• The lab would process about 150 samples over three months, at a cost of about $90,000.
  — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
• Some students attend tutoring up to four days a week, at a cost of up to $1,000 a month.
  — Jackie Mader, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2023
• The Shetland Islands are famed for their remote beauty but for locals this comes at a cost.
  — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 20 Mar. 2026
• Progress comes at a cost The costs of the reading initiative have not been small for Cudahy.
  — Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2023
• The Tollway plans to build a full interchange at a cost of $132 million.
  — Marni Pike, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
• After a month of bombing the Houthis to a stalemate at a cost of $1 billion, this threat rings a bit hollow.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2025
• The zoo is hosting the black-and-white duo under a loan from China for the next decade, at a cost of $1 million a year.
  — Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
• The first phase, covering 6 miles of line, has been completed at a cost of more than $12 million.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2025
• Partners who deal fairly with Schulz Logistics get fairness back, even at a cost.
  — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
• Cells hold onto memory at a cost, because maintaining readiness to adapt comes at the expense of growth.
  — Shiladitya Banerjee, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
• The initial timeline called for the bridge to be rebuilt by 2028 at a cost of less than $2 billion.
  — Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
• The merger preserved some physical presence, but at a cost, Greenstein said.
  — Jeffrey Selingo, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2026
• Chips can take years to develop — at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars or more — and companies rarely get them right on the first try.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026