How to Use costly in a Sentence

costly

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• The decision to wait could be a costly mistake.
• They won the game, but their best player was injured, so it was a costly victory.
• It was too costly to fix her car after the accident, so she decided to buy a new car instead.
• We use less costly materials in our products.
• Still, the Bud Light saga has been a costly one for the brewer.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
• The Rays worked two walks to begin the game and both free passes proved costly.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 5 July 2024
• But in the long run, not leveraging AI at all will be even costlier.
  — Alon Goren, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• Renting near the beach has never looked so good — or so costly.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2024
• Analysts have said the months of bloody fighting in Bakhmut have been costly for both sides.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• Fighting here began last spring and it's been bitter and costly to both sides.
  — Brian Mann, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
• More chefs will get out of the hamster wheel of costly meal creation and will set up shop in smaller, more low-key places.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 28 Mar. 2023
• The sale of assets, including the home, cars, etc., can also be costly.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 7 May 2024
• The final preseason game against the Chiefs was costly for the Browns from an injury standpoint.
  — cleveland, 26 Aug. 2023
• Over the years, tech titans have incurred costly fines in the millions, even billions at times.
  — Adriana Lee, WWD, 4 Nov. 2024
• Two more costly turnovers at inopportune times cost the Terps in the second half.
  — Ryan McFadden, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2023
• Caveat: The numbers in last week's report are estimates and hosting the Games could grow more costly over the next decade.
  — Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 16 July 2024
• Rebuilding the span will be a costly endeavor, but bills for the cleanup process have started to come in, too.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024
• Until that kind of scale is achieved, the transition will continue to be a costly grind.
  — Tom Randall, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
• While special needs students are more costly, their needs cannot be used to reduce the budget.
  — Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
• Fluent English-speaking hosts are costly and hard to find, Tsui said.
  — oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
• According to Sky News, this is the most costly Olympic construction project yet.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 18 Mar. 2024
• The whistle, with 3 minutes 57 seconds to play, proved costly, robbing the Huskies of a possession and awarding two free throws and the ball to the Gamecocks.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
• Researchers have pointed out that this will be a slow and costly endeavour.
  — Nature Magazine, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2023
• The primates will even climb to higher ground to scope out their surroundings and avoid other groups, since fights would be costly.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2023
• Winter expected to be costlier for those who heat with oil.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• Generally, the longer the CD term length, the costlier the withdrawal penalty.
  — Elizabeth Gravier, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
• But on the rare occasions of an accident, the results can be costly, and even deadly.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2023
• Relying on core system providers to make changes can be costly and may require long lead times.
  — Mike Sekits, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• One costly mistake from rookie quarterback Drake Maye in the fourth quarter let the Bills take advantage to pick up the 24-21 win.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024
• Although the announcement sent shares plunging as much as 19% that evening, investors have come around to the company’s costly AI ambitions.
  — Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025