How to Use expensive in a Sentence

expensive

adjective

• The lights were expensive to install.
• The Colts come in as the second least expensive day at the game.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2023
• The city was found to be 1.7% more expensive than New York.
  — Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2024
• Sure, there's always the salon, but that's a) expensive, and b) a trek.
  — Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 7 July 2023
• Tampons and pads are expensive and hard to find, and there is nowhere to dispose of them.
  — Qadri Inzamam Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• That's about $2 more expensive than this time last year.
  — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The Boston Red Sox are primed to have quite a busy and expensive winter.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
• Here are some spots in Times Square that are offering some of the more expensive ways to kick off 2024.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 27 Dec. 2023
• They’re prized for their flavor and quite expensive to buy.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 11 May 2023
• Due to the high standards and deluxe features, this chair is one of the more expensive options on the market.
  — Casey Seiden, Parents, 28 June 2023
• This is a splurge purchase as the most expensive on our list, but the investment will last for a long time.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2023
• At the time, it was considered to be the most expensive dress ever made.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado and julia Cooper, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2023
• Books are not just all cheaper or more expensive versions of the same thing.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• This team, the most expensive in NBA history, had to scrap and claw to make the play-in tournament.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
• The specialized files that file both the cutter and reduce the height of the depth gauge/raker are more expensive.
  — Joe Truini, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
• But having the heater on most of the day can equal an expensive electrical bill.
  — Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2024
• Naples and Palm Beach County are among the most expensive areas for gas.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2025
• The move sets the state for what is expected to be an expensive and bitter fight to replace the Democrat in 2024.
  — Jessica Garrisonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
• All three colors are on sale, with white being the least expensive.
  — Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2023
• Hailey Bieber has a passion(fruit) for fashion, and an expensive one at that.
  — Seventeen, 5 Apr. 2023
• The success in the race depends on the skills of the riders more than on how expensive their snowmachine is, Mitchell said.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023
• China’s bullet trains are still less expensive than those in the West.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 13 May 2024
• My dream was to put the original version over the end credits, but that was too expensive.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
• WalletHub is out with a survey of the most and least expensive energy states for 2023.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 7 July 2023
• His local managers didn’t like this plan, which was expensive and would take the tracks out of service for months.
  — Danelle Morton, ProPublica, 18 Nov. 2023
• Oat milk is only getting more expensive and harder to get a hold of, says Ballinger.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 17 Mar. 2023
• But the company has since cut the price down to $999 in a sign that the public has little appetite for expensive VR gear.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 June 2023
• The Grinkers planned to renovate it but found that doing so would be too expensive, Grinker said.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2023
• The work set a new record for the artist—and became the most expensive Impressionist piece sold at auction.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2024
• However, gas prices are now more expensive than when gas was $3.127 per gallon a month ago.
  — Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 12 Mar 2025