7 sentences with 'costly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word costly and other words derived from it.
• « Towards the end of his reign, Justinian simply made peace with the Persian king Khusro I by agreeing to pay an annual tribute of 30,000 gold coins a year. In the end it was less costly to spend huge sums of gold as a bribe than to pay for the wars. »
• « In the process, states were forced to raise enormous amounts of revenue to cover the costs of weapons, mercenaries and new fortifications. This was an extremely costly undertaking. »
• « While intra-Asian trade routes linking China, Korea, Japan, the western Pacific islands, Southeast Asia and India ensured that Asian states had access to wealth and luxury goods, Europeans had to rely on costly long-distance trade between Asia, the Middle East and Europe to access goods such as spices and porcelain that Europeans desperately wanted (as far as we can conclude based on the prices European elites were willing to pay for them) but could not produce themselves. »
• « Spain, in turn, maintained a continuous and enormously costly military campaign against the Republic until 1648. »
• « Even as Spain became embroiled in an ongoing and costly conflict in the Netherlands, hostility developed between Spain and England. »
• « However, despite the success of all these movements, with all the hopes and aspirations of their supporters over the last century, Europe had degenerated into a horrendous and costly war. »
• « World War II would "only" be the story of a horrendously costly war were it not for the Holocaust. »