as in costly
commanding a large price
expensive clothing that only the truly wealthy can afford
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Recent Examples of expensive
Zillow’s findings highlight a housing market that remains historically expensive, with values climbing even as elevated mortgage rates sideline would-be buyers and force more sellers to slash asking prices.
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Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
All are expensive in terms of cognitive expenditure.
—Andrew Mawson, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
But there’s something uniquely accessible, satisfying, comforting, and consistent about a Danish hot dog, an affordable foil to an otherwise very expensive dining city.
—Li Goldstein, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
This Nordic country has the most expensive public transportation and average restaurant meals in the ranking.
—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
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Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
All are expensive in terms of cognitive expenditure.
—Andrew Mawson, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
But there’s something uniquely accessible, satisfying, comforting, and consistent about a Danish hot dog, an affordable foil to an otherwise very expensive dining city.
—Li Goldstein, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
This Nordic country has the most expensive public transportation and average restaurant meals in the ranking.
—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for expensive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expensive
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Ultimately, costly mistakes — a Miles Sanders red zone fumble in the third quarter and three drops from CeeDee Lamb in the fourth quarter — gave the Eagles a slim 24-20 victory.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Sep. 2025
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Oregon is another state feeling the strain of costlier and harder to obtain insurance policies, with Cotality finding that major insurers have begun to pull back homeowner insurance coverage in parts of Oregon.—
Kyle Reiman,
ABC News,
5 Sep. 2025
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The world’s most valuable digital currency by total market capitalization traded largely between $4,300 and $4,400 on Monday, September 8, after falling to nearly $4,250 the weekend before, according to Coinbase data from TradingView.—
Charles Lloyd Bovaird II,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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That scarcity made the work valuable.—
Chris Schembra,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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Langley added that younger audiences are looking for a premium theatrical experience, like IMAX, citing the recent move by Universal to sell IMAX 70mm tickets to Nolan’s next movie, The Odyssey, a full year before the film hits theaters.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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Watch live local and out of market games and (with the premium subscription) replays.—
Chris Morris,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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Omar’s growing outrage, especially when precious time is lost because of jammed phone lines, troubling silences and false assumptions, rankles Mahdi, the most overstretched of anyone at the call center.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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Actors speak and react to Rajab’s own desperate voice, while the film, set wholly within the Red Crescent’s beigely neutral offices, conjures a fraught ticking-clock atmosphere as precious minutes of inaction pass by.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025
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What to expect Vaughn said the boutique has something for everyone with dress sizes ranging from zero to 28 and a variety of styles from short and simple to long and extravagant.—
Emma George-Griffin,
Freep.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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As the dust settles on another chaotic summer of extravagant Premier League spending, there’s time to take a step back.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Expensive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expensive. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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