Example Sentences

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For some, the cost highlights how dining out has become prohibitively expensive in one of the world's culinary capitals.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

Today’s humanoid robots may be klutzy and prohibitively expensive, but another quarter of a century of research will transform them into essential home assistants, says Brendan Englot, director of the Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Brands and bottle manufacturers warn that a prolonged war will risk making a crucial commodity prohibitively expensive for many Indians.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Technically you can shield people from radiation with thick barriers of water, but getting the water or other protective substances into space and constructing the shields has thus far proved prohibitively expensive.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2026

This sounds reasonable, but in most cases it’s simply impossible or, what amounts to the same thing, prohibitively expensive.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos