How to Use at a cost in a Sentence
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Ads would close the gap, but at a cost.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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This could be seen as democratising, but this comes at a cost.
—Shain Shapiro, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
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But the Niners found it at a cost.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
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Each ticket tier comes with a few more perks — at a cost, of course.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 23 July 2025
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All of this will come at a cost, though—and a pretty steep one at that.
—Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
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Space for four people, across two rooms, at a cost of $250 per night.
—Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2023
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Whether time, money or other resources, change comes at a cost.
—James Itkoff, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
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Yale became the idea, even at a cost of $78,000 a year.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2026
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Parking on the festival grounds is available at a cost.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Three years later, the Chinese line opened at a cost of $36 billion.
—Andy Browne, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
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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
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The Senators got a win over the New York Rangers, but at a cost.
—Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
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The Miami Dolphins won their first game of the season - but at a cost.
—Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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The lab would process about 150 samples over three months, at a cost of about $90,000.
—Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
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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
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The Shetland Islands are famed for their remote beauty but for locals this comes at a cost.
—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 20 Mar. 2026
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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
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The Tollway plans to build a full interchange at a cost of $132 million.
—Marni Pike, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
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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
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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
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The first phase, covering 6 miles of line, has been completed at a cost of more than $12 million.
—Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2025
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Partners who deal fairly with Schulz Logistics get fairness back, even at a cost.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
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The merger preserved some physical presence, but at a cost, Greenstein said.
—Jeffrey Selingo, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2026
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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
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Adam found a private nursing home company that would care for Michael in his home, at a cost of $960 a day.
—Jordan Rau, NPR, 29 Nov. 2025
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This new offering replaces the need to combine the two (at a cost of $32 per day) into one flat $20 fee.
—Ramsey Qubein, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
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The latter case is a particular challenge which can be solved easily at a cost, but companies may not be ready for that cost.
—Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
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