Without firing a single shot, Turkey's military has had an expensive war.

The treaty ended the longest and most expensive war in British Indian history.

This was an expensive war fought over disputed territory bordering the Amazon.

It's been years since America had a bloody, expensive and fruitless war.

We have a deadly, very expensive war going on.

He now begins preparing himself and his allies for a long and expensive war.

They were early contributions to what became the expensive political wars that have been fought with paid advertising since then.

The question of how we are to treat our wildly expensive cold war relics is only now coming into focus.

But he had one comment: "It's going to be an expensive tabloid war."

Both measures had been designed to help Britain pay for an extended and expensive war with France.