"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A sobering number indeed, saddling cars with an image that auto makers didn't like at all: that of a costly luxury.
- Just one example: Ellington's was the only band traveling in its own Pullman cars, a costly luxury designed to let them sidestep segregated hotels and restaurants.
- These are appropriate finishing schools for the elite, but a costly and unneeded luxury for those simply seeking some education and skills.
- When Sweden descended to a position of a second-rate power the alliance with the French became too costly a luxury.
- The old argument, one combatted vigorously by Professor Hook, was that freedom is a costly luxury that the poor can ill afford.
- For many of the students, even a semester at N.Y.U. is a costly luxury.
- The time-consuming new craft became a prized if costly luxury.
- We should not seek for precision where precision is an unnecessary and costly luxury.
- He was gifted a Rolls Royce car and he was the only one who had this costly luxury at those times.
- His plan seemed all the more sound after Sept. 11, when the conventional wisdom suggested that costly luxuries were no longer in good taste.
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