Examples of how to use the word “expensive” in a sentence. How to connect “expensive” with other words to make correct English sentences.
expensive (adj): costing a lot of money
Use “expensive” in a sentence
| It’s too expensive and anyway the color doesn’t suit you. |
| I can’t afford to buy an expensive car. |
| This book is too expensive. |
| She gave him an expensive watch. |
| Of these two options, the former is less expensive, while the latter is less risky. |
| Gasoline is expensive in Vietnam. |
| She expected him to buy her an expensive gift. |
| An expensive watch is not necessarily a good one. |
| This painting is so expensive. |
| The hotel was expensive but it was worth every penny. |
| This shirt is relatively expensive. |
| This shirt is terribly expensive.
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expensive — перевод на русский
/ɪksˈpɛnsɪv/
Isn’t this too expensive?
Это же очень дорого!
This is too expensive for us.
Это для нас слишком дорого.
That is far too expensive
Слишком дорого …
I couldn’t afford something so expensive.
Я не могла позволить себе что-либо так дорого.
It’s very expensive, but that doesn’t matter.
Всё очень дорого, но это неважно.
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I thought about dogs but dog food is expensive.
Я подумывал о собаках но собачий корм дорого стоит.
It must be expensive.
Наверное дорого стоит.
— Is taxi expensive?
— А такси дорого стоит?
Anyway, a good dowser is expensive.
А хороший колдун дорого стоит.
-Why not, is it vey expensive?
— Почему же? Он так дорого стоит?
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Won’t those two years in court be expensive for you?
Не дороговато ли обойдутся вам эти два года судов?
That’s much too expensive, I’m sorry.
О, для меня это дороговато. Мне очень жаль.
— It’s expensive.
— Дороговато.
— It’s expensive, man.
— Дороговато, мужик.
— It’s expensive, but worth it
— Дороговато, но того стоит. А что это такое?
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She didn’t care about transmission, connecting rod or clutch. Every time something happens to this car, it’s special and expensive.
она ничего не понимает в машинах, передачах, трансмиссии но с этой машиной всякий раз что то случается и это очень дорого.
We have some nice combed wool, but it’s expensive.
У нас есть хорошая английская шерсть, но это очень дорого.
Madam, this is expensive.
— Госпожа, это очень дорого.
A pony is expensive. We have enough trouble paying bills as it is.
Пони — это очень дорого, а мы итак едва платим по счетам.
I knew it would be expensive, but he said, «The sky’s the limit.»
Я чувствовал, что все это очень дорого, но он сказал, что денег у него навалом.
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Expensive and unusual, Delos is not for everyone.
Дорогостоящий и необычный, Делос — не для каждого.
We set down there on company orders to get this thing, which destroyed my crew… and your expensive ship.
Мы сели там по приказу компании, чтобы забрать эту тварь, которая уничтожила мой экипаж… и ваш дорогостоящий корабль.
I have had but one dream: To create the greatest, most luxurious, most expensive pleasure ship ever built.
построить самый грандиозный самый роскошный, самый дорогостоящий в мире круизный корабль.
«Expensive» is the key word for every job.
«Дорогостоящий» — ключевое слово для любой работы.
After all, it’s loud, expensive, inefficient, temperamental, and it smells terrible.
В конце концов, он шумный, неэффективный, дорогостоящий и воняет ужасно.
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Silk stockings are prettier there and less expensive.
Шелковые чулки там дешевле да и лучше.
Today, they understand the need to reign here in the Assembly. rather than in Oubangui… and to manufacture a deputy is less expensive than compensating some negro king.
Сегодня они поняли, что сидеть в парламенте выгоднее, чем в Убанги, и дешевле подкупить депутата, чем негритянского царька.
It’s less expensive and healthier.
— Это дешевле и лучше для здоровья.
Beef is less expensive in Exeter.
Мясо намного дешевле в Эксетере.
There was one less expensive… which they showed me and I refused it.
Был один ещё дешевле, который они мне показали, и я отказался.
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Especially since it’s so expensive.
Особенно если учесть, сколько все это стоит.
Spike owes you an expensive dinner or holiday, depending who’s got the brains to get the going rate on betrayal.
Спайк должен тебе обед или пусть отправит в путешествие. Смотря, сколько стоит его предательство.
Can you believe this stuff is expensive?
Ты бы поверил, что оно столько стоит?
It’s much more expensive extended period.
Кольцо стоит больше сотни долларов. Не задерживай меня.
Let us teach that brat just how expensive a Hellsing education can be.
столько стоит брать уроки у Хеллсинга.
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Taking her to my clinic would have been too expensive. Between you and me, there are no heirs. I know.
Я мог бы поместить ее к себе в клинику, но это дорогое удовольствие.
It would be an expensive gloat, but they’d buy it.
Это было бы дорогое удовольствие, но они купили бы ее.
Sam, Information Retrieval is expensive.
ѕолучение информации Ч дорогое удовольствие.
It was totally expensive.
Дорогое удовольствие.
Something habit-forming and expensive… that totally destroys your ability to lead an authentic life.
Да, дорогое удовольствие, которое трудно бросить которое убивает все шансы жить настоящей жизнью.
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But three people, that’ll be expensive.
Но три человека – это слишком дорого.
The hotel shall be quite expensive.
В отеле слишком дорого.
Keeping this is very expensive.
Поддерживать всё — это для нас слишком дорого.
It still doesn’t seem expensive.
И всё равно кажется не слишком дорого.
AREN’T THEY EXPENSIVE?
А это не слишком дорого?
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— He’s a very expensive doctor.
— Этот доктор много просит.
Was it terribly expensive?
Много взяли?
Sundance says it’s cos you’re a soft touch, always taking expensive vacations, buying drinks for everyone, and you’re a rotten gambler.
Сандэнс говорит, что ты слишком мягкий, слишком много тратишь на отдых, всем покупаешь выпить и все время играешь.
-Ha. Do you know why it’s so expensive?
Знаете почему страховщики так много берут?
Well, it couldn’t be too expensive.
Ну, не думаю что очень много.
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Used with verbs:
«Her new clothes look very expensive.«
(look, be: is/am/are, seem)
«The repairs sounded expensive.«
(sounded, proved, be: is/am/are)
«Living in this area is becoming very expensive.«
(be + becoming, be + getting)
«Having two kids makes shopping expensive.«
(makes)
«I found the trip too expensive.«
(found)
Used with adverbs:
«They found buying a house extremely expensive.«
(extremely, very, fairly)
«Her new shoes were horribly expensive.«
(horribly, hugely, incredibly, amazingly, ridiculously)
«This option is only moderately more expensive.«
(moderately, a little, slightly)
«Traveling is increasingly expensive.«
(increasingly)
«A fancy car is an obviously expensive purchase.«
(obviously, clearly)
Used with nouns:
«Mistakes can be very expensive.«
(mistakes)
«That restaurant is too expensive for me.«
(restaurant, store, shop, boutique, hotel)
«They brought a very expensive gift to the party.«
(gift, present)
«She likes expensive jewelry.«
(jewelry, clothes, shoes, perfume, cosmetics, things)
«Golf is an expensive hobby.«
(hobby, activity, sport)
«He bought some expensive wine.«
(wine, champagne, coffee, food, gadgets, toys)
«That was an expensive purchase.«
(purchase, repair)
«She has very expensive taste.«
(taste)
Synonym: costly, dear, high-priced. Antonym: cheap, economical, inexpensive. Similar words: expense, offensive, defensive, extensive, at the expense of, comprehensive, pension, propensity. Meaning: [-sɪv] 
adj. high in price or charging high prices.
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1. The company is backtracking from its more expensive plans.
2. She was wearing an expensive new outfit.
3. The best grades of tea are expensive.
4. It is expensive to travel by plane.
5. The diamond ring is the most expensive.
6. A minor snag is that it’s expensive.
7. Tickets are likely to be expensive.
8. Making the wrong decision could prove expensive.
9. It is too expensive for me to buy.
10. It must be expensive. —Not really.
11. Buying that airbus was an expensive mistake.
12. Art books are expensive to produce.
12. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and create good sentences.
13. Both books/Both the books/Both these books are expensive.
14. Existing methods of production are expensive and inefficient.
15. Accommodation is expensive in this city.
16. There were several expensive suits hanging in the wardrobe.
17. tried to glamorize the bathroom with expensive fixtures.
18. High interest rates make credit expensive.
19. Petrol is becoming more and more expensive.
20. Wine’s so expensive in this country.
21. Her suit looked extremely expensive.
22. I bought the more expensive model.
23. The upkeep of larger old properties is very expensive.
24. That dress was an expensive mistake.
25. They are very expensive, I presume?
26. Houses are very expensive in this area.
27. I can’t afford it, it’s too expensive.
28. The car parts themselves are not expensive, it’s the labour that costs the money.
29. The upper classes usually send their children to expensive private schools.
30. When she lost her job they could no longer sustain their expensive lifestyle.
More similar words: expense, offensive, defensive, extensive, at the expense of, comprehensive, pension, propensity, sensitive, expert, expel, expect, expedite, expertise, expected, experience, experiment, experienced, unexpected, expedition, experimental, density, tension, massive, expansion, derisive, pervasive, effusive, extension, dimension.
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adjective
entailing great expense; very high-priced; costly: an expensive party.
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Origin of expensive
First recorded in 1620–30; expense + -ive
synonym study for expensive
Expensive, costly, dear, high-priced apply to something that is high in price. Expensive is applied to whatever entails considerable expense; it suggests a price more than the average person would normally be able to pay or a price paid only for something special: an expensive automobile. Costly implies that the price is a large sum, usually because of the fineness, preciousness, etc., of the object: a costly jewel. Dear is commonly applied in England to something that is selling beyond its usual or just price. In the U.S., high-priced is the usual equivalent.
OTHER WORDS FROM expensive
ex·pen·sive·ly, adverbex·pen·sive·ness, nounqua·si-ex·pen·sive, adjectivequa·si-ex·pen·sive·ly, adverb
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH expensive
expansive, expensive
Words nearby expensive
expend, expendable, expenditure, expense, expense account, expensive, experience, experienced, Experience is the best teacher, experience meeting, experience point
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MORE ABOUT EXPENSIVE
What does expensive mean?
Expensive means something is high priced or costs a lot of money.
Expensive is most often applied to items with very high prices, such as luxury cars. But it can also be used to describe things whose price or cost is simply high compared to others.
Example: I like it, but it’s just too expensive. Do you have any lower-priced models?
Where does expensive come from?
The first records of expensive come from the 1620s. It is the adjective form of the older noun expense, which means “cost” or “something that needs to be paid for.” Expense derives from the Latin verb expendere, meaning “to expend” (“to pay out or spend”). The suffix -ive makes expensive an adjective.
Most often, things are described as expensive when they always have a high price, like mansions and designer dresses, or a high cost, like weddings. Of course, what one person considers expensive may be inexpensive to another person. It depends on how much a person is willing to spend and how much money they have. Sometimes, expensive means that the price or cost of something seems high compared to similar items. For example, $5 might not be a high price in general, but it would be considered pretty expensive for a single apple. Such a thing would often be called overpriced.
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How is expensive used in real life?
Expensive is a relative term, usually depending on how much money someone has. But it is always used in relation to how much something costs.
The FDA recently approved 2 transformative new treatments for sickle-cell disease, the first in 20 years. But the drugs are wildly expensive, renewing troubling questions about access to cutting-edge medicines. https://t.co/9AqXjtj5Qz
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 8, 2019
I really want to get back into photography but camera equipment is way too expensive 😅
— 𝒮𝒶𝓇𝒶 (@SaraRenae15) March 6, 2020
i just bought lettuce for $3, isn’t that a little expensive for a ball of leaves
— cheryl (@sheryourk) November 12, 2019
Try using expensive!
Which of the following things is most likely to be described as expensive?
A. gumball
B. generic shampoo
C. luxury car
D. half-price socks
Words related to expensive
costly, extravagant, fancy, high, lavish, overpriced, pricey, upscale, valuable, an arm and a leg, at a premium, big-ticket, dear, excessive, exorbitant, highway robbery, holdup, immoderate, inordinate, invaluable
How to use expensive in a sentence
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This is why affiliate businesses and licensing deals with manufacturers who can make and distribute the products on their own are often times the most appealing and less expensive routes for publishers, she said.
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Many consumers, though, viewed it as a ploy to boost sales of newer and more expensive iPhones.
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What Blink Health set out to do, as Fortune has previously reported, is bypass the middlemen who make drugs more expensive.
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Pharma companies favor expensive medicines that must be taken repeatedly and generate revenue for years or decades.
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Well, first and foremost, it’s more expensive to design sustainably and it’s more expensive to design so that there isn’t an obvious loser in the situation.
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We indulge in expensive cold-pressed juices and SoulCycle classes, justifying these purchases as investments in our health.
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Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.
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Community policing is expensive and, in an era of budget cuts, increasingly rare.
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Some medicines, like HIV drugs, are very expensive, as most them are under brand names.
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Even local chickens were more expensive than in the summer, Smirnova and another woman at the counter complained.
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W was a Watchman, and guarded the door; X was expensive, and so became poor.
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Magnums of the driest and most expensive champagne seemed to be the favourite beverage.
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You may take my word for it that pigs are far more interesting and far more respectable, though they’re expensive, mind you.
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Play-writing is a luxury to a journalist, as insidious as golf and much more expensive in time and money.
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It was possible that no insurance company would take the risk on an expensive building in such a quarter.
British Dictionary definitions for expensive
adjective
high-priced; costly; dear
Derived forms of expensive
expensively, adverbexpensiveness, noun
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