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expensive

[ɪkˈspensɪv]

Definition:
1. High in price or charging high prices.

Use 'expensive' in a sentence:

  1. Admittedly, it is rather expensive but you don't need to use much.
  2. She thinks expensive clothes are a mark of gentility.
  3. She was wearing an expensive new outfit.
  4. To start with it's much too expensive.
  5. This dress is really nice. Pity it's so expensive.
  6. They are very expensive, I presume?
  7. Her bikini was one of those expensive designer jobbies.
  8. Many foreign goods are too expensive for American pocketbooks.
  9. He wants a big house and an expensive car and all the rest of it.
  10. I don't think you appreciate how expensive it will be.
  11. I spend a lot on expensive jewellery and clothing.
  12. He went to an expensive clinic to dry out.
  13. At his suggestion, I bought the more expensive printer.
  14. Oddly enough, the most expensive tickets sold fastest.
  15. Houses in the neighbourhood of Paris are extremely expensive.
  16. The meal was ridiculously expensive.
  17. Car insurance can be prohibitively expensive for young drivers.
  18. The meal was certainly too expensive.
  19. Hotels were full of rich people wolfing expensive meals.
  20. It's a tad too expensive for me.
  21. Smoked salmon was considered an expensive delicacy.
  22. I can't afford it ─ it's just too expensive for me.
  23. She chose the least expensive of the hotels.
  24. The more expensive articles are not necessarily better.
  25. Meat and butter were prohibitively expensive.
  26. I can't afford it, it's too expensive.
  27. Repairs involve skilled labour, which can be expensive.
  28. That dress was an expensive mistake.
  29. Firstly, it's expensive, and secondly, it's too slow.
  30. Meat and fish are relatively expensive.
  31. Skiing gear can be expensive.
  32. Making the wrong decision could prove expensive.
  33. It's too expensive and anyway the colour doesn't suit you.
  34. He wore an expensive, dark blue pinstripe suit.
  35. There were several expensive suits hanging in the wardrobe.
  36. Houses are more expensive down south.
  37. The other one was much too expensive.
  38. Food was scarce and expensive.
  39. An expensive bicycle is a temptation to thieves.
  40. Her black suit was restrained and expensive.
  41. The food was not actually all that expensive.
  42. On the minus side, rented property is expensive and difficult to find.
  43. Programs are expensive, and even more so if you have to keep altering them.
  44. Art books are expensive to produce.
  45. The new office block has become an expensive white elephant.
  46. It was too expensive, to say nothing of the time it wasted.
  47. Tickets are likely to be expensive.