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"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

costly adjetivo

costly + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 119
costly mistake • costly war • costly battle • costly program • costly process • ...
colocaciones frecuentes
Kolokacji: 6
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(1) mistake, error, interception, fumble, trip, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(2) war, battle, effort, campaign, change, ...
Kolokacji: 12
(3) program, system, burden, plan, arrangement
Kolokacji: 5
(4) process, procedure, operation, regulation, technology, ...
Kolokacji: 8
(5) litigation, lawsuit, mandate, divorce, suit, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(6) failure, victory, defeat, flop, setback
Kolokacji: 5
(7) project, undertaking, endeavor, enterprise, task, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(8) alternative, option, decision
Kolokacji: 3
(9) way, proposition, approach, luxury, proposal
Kolokacji: 5
(10) disaster, problem, distraction
Kolokacji: 3
(11) item, one, ingredient, piece, component
Kolokacji: 5
(12) repair, service, care, renovation, cleanup, ...
Kolokacji: 8
(13) delay, disruption
Kolokacji: 2
(14) treatment, drug, intervention
Kolokacji: 3
(15) turnover, investment, venture, production, business, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(16) penalty, incentive, benefit
Kolokacji: 3
(17) gift, acquisition, subsidy
Kolokacji: 3
(18) equipment, material, fabric, robe, duplication
Kolokacji: 5
(19) measure, step, weapon
Kolokacji: 3
(20) hurricane, tornado
Kolokacji: 2
(21) strike, assault, storm
Kolokacji: 3
(22) solution, method
Kolokacji: 2
(23) trial, experiment
Kolokacji: 2
(24) affair, race
Kolokacji: 2
(25) expansion, model, form, version
Kolokacji: 4
(26) bureaucracy, machine
Kolokacji: 2
(27) dispute, jewel, gem
Kolokacji: 3
1. costly dispute = kosztowny spór costly dispute
2. costly jewel = kosztowny klejnot costly jewel
3. costly gem = kosztowny kamień szlachetny costly gem
  • It was strange they should be on display in a shop that specialized in costly gems.
  • Set with costly gems and embellished with strange carvings, it resembled a demon's forepaw from some drugged nightmare.
  • But Cartiff, the great jeweler, would be expected to wear very large and exceedingly costly gems.
  • Poirot said a few words in praise of some of the costlier gems displayed on the lady's ample bosom, and she brightened up at once.
  • Sabrina gasped at the costly gems as he fastened it around her throat.
  • Just an overly numerous series of thefts of cheap trinkets and costly gems, with women the chief sufferers.
  • Martingale's handle some of the most costly gems in New York.
  • But both cenotaphs are inlaid with flowers made of costly gems, and with the ever graceful oleander scroll.
  • Inlaid with flowers made of costly gems--5.
  • They used to scrawl curses on the hood or empty the contents of garbage cans on the Mercedes or other costly gem.
(28) import, consequence
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + costly
Kolokacji: 4
prove costly • become costly • grow costly • consider costly
adverbio + costly
Kolokacji: 19
most costly • extremely costly • potentially costly • far more costly • increasingly costly • ...
costly + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
costly for • costly to • costly in

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