How to Use exorbitant in a Sentence

exorbitant

adjective

• They were charged exorbitant rates for phone calls.
• Dress in scrubs, drink an exorbitant amount of coffee and head to the hospital.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 16 Oct. 2024
• With a price range from $68 to $98, Mendes wanted to ensure that style doesn’t have to come at an exorbitant price.
  — Maggie Clancy, WWD, 16 Oct. 2024
• Racial covenants may be a thing of the past, but charging the poor exorbitant rents is not.
  — Timothy Noah, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• In truth, exorbitant wealth isn’t the case for most Africans at home or abroad.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 27 Mar. 2022
• The scalpers then resell the cards to gamers for exorbitant mark-ups.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 27 July 2021
• Then there are tasks that take exorbitant amounts of time, such as scrubbing the walls.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
• This is the guy who wants to give the power back to big pharma, to be able to charge exorbitant prices for drugs.
  — ABC News, 7 July 2024
• So the state has been procuring power at exorbitant prices to keep the lights on.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• Aged options by the glass and the bottle are offered in a range of prices, not all of them exorbitant.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
• The other involves the exorbitant cost of her move to Alaska in 2019.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2022
• That helps to pay for exorbitant rent, which had been taking up to a whopping 55% of their pay.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2023
• The cost for our New York agency to shoot the pictures seemed exorbitant.
  — George Bradt, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
• If you’re asked to be part of the wedding party, the expense can get exorbitant.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• In the past, that has meant seats for top-selling artists could be exorbitant, like the time Bruce Springsteen's best seats went for $4,000.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 3 Feb. 2023
• But the exorbitant fun continues on this fifth and final night of the Grand Idea.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2021
• Hamas steals it and then sells any surplus back to its people, no doubt at exorbitant prices.
  — Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 12 May 2024
• After all, hardly any of us would have to pay that exorbitant rate.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• Outside of exorbitant use by some minors, there are growing concern about the app around the world.
  — Michelle Chapman, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
• The progress is slow, due to exorbitant R&D costs caused by the unique technical challenges of flying faster than sound.
  — J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 8 May 2024
• For most, the long days, cramped seats, and exorbitant fees are enough to throw in the towel, sartorially.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
• The deal is team friendly for the Pacers because Turner won't take up an exorbitant amount of cap space the next two seasons.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Jan. 2023
• How to spend the welcome bonus: Delta prices its award tickets at sometimes exorbitant rates, but there are still some good deals from time to time.
  — Ramsey Qubein, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Nov. 2021
• For what’s certain to be an exorbitant amount of money.
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 8 Jan. 2024
• For years, many of them have been forced to pay exorbitant prices for a product that's inexpensive to make.
  — Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 21 Sep. 2024
• The high price of tickets is something that has followed Messi around the country as MLS fans have had to pay exorbitant prices.
  — Eduard Cauich, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Still, the life-sustaining medicine can be an exorbitant cost.
  — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
• But this is not a bottle to spend an exorbitant amount of time and money chasing on the secondary market.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 May 2022
• Investors have fled Intel in part because of the exorbitant cost of Gelsinger’s turnaround plan.
  — oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2022
• Americans spend an exorbitant amount of money on health care and have for years.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024