Definition: 1. Entailing great loss or sacrifice. 2. Having a high price.
Use 'costly' in a sentence:
1. Cadets are having to use football rattles to simulate gunfire because blank ammunition is too costly.
2. To ensure a brilliant college life, you'd better spare time to visit campus, even if it may be costly.
3. Having curtains made professionally can be costly.
4. The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.
5. Coastal defence is a costly business.
6. Animal signals, such as the complex songs of birds, tend to be costly.
7. This sort of scandal in international banking has been politically costly.
8. The aim is to reduce the importance of costly tutors and cram schools, partly to help students enjoy a more normal high-school life.
9. These small promotions were costly and they did nothing to increase his bottom line.
10. Indeed, the purple colour extracted from a snail was once so costly that in society at the time only the rich could afford it.
11. This is the costliest war in our history.
12. He wanted to know how to avoid costly legal proceedings.
13. Medicare could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if everyone used the cheaper drug, Avastin, instead of the costlier one, Lucentis.
14. At least they have demonstrated that when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them a less costly punishment.
15. Such a set of furniture would be extremely costly to buy.
16. Mining can be costly in terms of lives.
17. Greens attacked him, saying his new varieties used too much water and costly chemical fertilizer; his link with DuPont was noted.
18. We need some costly materials.
19. Too long a sentence will take up costly space better used for the violent and unremorseful.
20. Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period, possible only for a privileged class — the same that produced gentlemen scientists, authors, antique experts, and patrons of the arts.
21. Doing so is costly ( bank+ store fees) and damages your credit rating.
22. They said the paint used was also characteristic of that period, as was the intricate and costly style of the lace ruff worn by the man in the portrait.
23. Having professionally made curtains can be costly, so why not make your own?
24. They bribed him with costly presents.
25. The plan dropped through when it proved too costly.
26. The victory is costly.
27. The sofa is really costly.
28. Their costly and futile attempt to subjugate the Afghans lasted just 10 years.
29. Given that predators can make it costly to beg for food, what benefit do begging nestlings derive from their communications?
30. It can be costly to refinance.
31. I abandoned the New York tollway south of Albany in search of roads less costly.
32. But at least they have demonstrated that when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them a less costly punishment.
33. They would wed before the stork visited and before the couple made the costly investment of putting the husband through business school.
34. Maintaining this environment is very costly, and recent research shows that even old oil paint is unaffected by wide fluctuations in temperature and humidity.
35. Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.
36. Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.
37. In Fenchurch Street a fair child, in costly apparel, stood on a stage to welcome his Majesty to the city.
38. The major components of our energy systems, such as fuel production, refining, electrical generation and distribution, are costly installations that have lengthy life spans.
39. The major components of our energy systems, such as fuel production, refining, electrical generation and distribution, are costly installation that have lengthy life span.
40. Opponents worry that such expansion would be costly for taxpayers, but advocates say it would save money in the long run.
41. Some desalination plants exist where feasible, but they are costly to run and can need constant repairs.
42. The best equipment is costly but is well worth the outlay.
43. You want to avoid costly legal proceedings if you can.
44. Now the Emperor himself wished to see the costly manufacture, while it was still in the loom.
45. That lets us avoid building costly plants or buying expensive power at peak usage time.
46. At the required level of visual verisimilitude, computer animation is extremely costly.
47. At the required level of visual verisimilitude, computer animation is costly.
48. Take out our service contract and say goodbye to costly repair bills.
49. Las Vegas police committed a string of costly missteps.
50. Buying new furniture may prove too costly.
51. Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period, possible only for a privileged class—the same that produced gentlemen scientists, authors, antique experts, and patrons of the arts.
52. Psychometric tests can save organizations from grim and costly mistakes.
53. Next to the expense of cashiers, pricing items is one of the costliest labor costs of grocery retailers.
54. The proposed regulations are ill-defined and cumbersome and could be unnecessarily costly.
