How to Use exorbitant in a Sentence

exorbitant

adjective

• They were charged exorbitant rates for phone calls.
• Moss said someone who saw his display driving by offered to pay an exorbitant price for just one.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• At times, gangs have allowed some tankers to get through, but only after paying exorbitant bribes.
  — Matt Rivers, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
• But the exorbitant fun continues on this fifth and final night of the Grand Idea.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2021
• For some drivers who have long carried the uncertainty and fear of exorbitant loans, though, the day’s news was welcome.
  — Sean Sirota, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2021
• Indeed, this Rolex routinely fetches exorbitant sums on the booming (and cutthroat) second-hand watch market.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2021
• The candidates offer up varying plans and strategies to approaches to affordable housing, where the region and nation face severe shortages and exorbitant costs.
  — Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Private, person-to-person lending startups have proliferated in recent years, and so have opaque money lenders, some of whom prey on young investors and charge exorbitant interest rates.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• His exorbitant contract and the injuries that limited him to 25 games last year don’t tell the full story.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 15 July 2024
• Issues such as exorbitant costs, environmental impacts and allegations of corruption have cast a shadow over the Games.
  — Andrew Heffernan, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024