Example Sentences

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This is extremely rare; tech usually trades expensively versus the market because of its higher expected earnings growth and high quality.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Severus’ family was wealthy and aristocratic: They could afford to educate him expensively and expected him to pursue a career in public life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

But what Bodo/Glimt's players have shown when facing more expensively assembled opponents is a great determination and belief they are more than the sum of their parts.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Priced expensively, it left little room for Rheinmetall to disappoint investors.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

The tourists’ rooms that we clean and, beyond them, the far more expensively appointed interiors in the soaps begin after a while to merge.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich