"luxury" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

luxury sustantivo

verbo + luxury
Kolokacji: 7
afford the luxury • enjoy the luxury • live in luxury • offer luxury • buy luxuries • ...
adjetivo + luxury
Kolokacji: 35
great luxury • little luxury • rare luxury • small luxury • expensive luxury • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(2) little, small, only, quiet
Kolokacji: 4
2. affordable luxury = przystępny luksus affordable luxury
3. unaffordable luxury = nieosiągalny luksus unaffordable luxury
4. costly luxury = kosztowny luksus costly luxury
  • 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.
(5) ultimate, extreme
Kolokacji: 2
(7) real, true
Kolokacji: 2
(8) modern, personal, new
Kolokacji: 3
(9) pure, useless
Kolokacji: 2
(10) unimaginable, incredible
Kolokacji: 2
(11) unaccustomed, exotic, unusual
Kolokacji: 3
preposición + luxury
Kolokacji: 8
of luxury • for luxury • in luxury • with luxury • to luxury • ...

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