"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

costly adjetivo

costly + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 119
costly mistake • costly war • costly battle • costly program • costly process • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(10) disaster, problem, distraction
Kolokacji: 3
(13) delay, disruption
Kolokacji: 2
(14) treatment, drug, intervention
Kolokacji: 3
(16) penalty, incentive, benefit
Kolokacji: 3
(17) gift, acquisition, subsidy
Kolokacji: 3
(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
(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
  • The throne, costly jewels, and other valuable treasures were taken to Trichy.
  • Next issued from the deep imbosom'd splendour: "Say, whence the costly jewel, on the which Is founded every virtue, came to thee."
  • Finally, both will be adorned with costly jewels (Rev. 21:18-20; Isa.
  • He purchased a splendid wardrobe for her, including many elegant dresses, costly jewels and everything else that could add to her naturally charming person.
  • The Licchavi were gorgeously dressed in bright colors and decorated with costly jewels.
  • The little man was richly dressed in a gray velvet doublet; as had become his custom of late, his fingers glittered with costly jewels.
  • Her apartments were filled with pet animals and thousands of flowers; she had a private gallery, and costly jewels were showered upon her.
  • After receiving the gift, Simeon removed the saddle and discovered a costly jewel.
  • My more costly jewels," he said, "I keep in separate set-tings.
  • Erik Valkendorf (1465-1522), archbishop of Nidaros 1510 - 1522, allegedly bought a costly jewel which was fixed to one end of St. Olav's Shrine.
3. costly gem = kosztowny kamień szlachetny 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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