7 sentences with 'expensive'
Example sentences and phrases with the word expensive and other words derived from it.
• « The Egyptian New Kingdom also demonstrates another remarkable aspect of bronze: it was expensive to manufacture and expensive to distribute to soldiers, meaning that only the largest and wealthiest empires could afford it on a large scale. »
• « The problem with Justinian's wars, both the reconquest in the west and the ongoing battles with the Persians in the east, was that they were enormously expensive. Because his forces won enough battles to constantly plunder, and because the empire was relatively stable and prosperous under his reign, he was able to maintain these efforts during his lifetime. »
• « The road was enormously expensive to maintain; despite huge shipments of bullion from the New World, the Spanish monarchy was wracked by debt, much of which was due to the Dutch conflict. »
• « Although the volumes of this encyclopaedia were too expensive for most of the reading public to have direct access to them, the pirate chapters ensured that their ideas reached a much wider audience. »
• « For example, as noted above, an actual volume (let alone a multi-volume set) of the Encyclopédie was too expensive for an ordinary craftsman or tradesman to afford. However, such a person could afford a pamphlet-sized pirated copy of several of the Encyclopédie's articles that might interest him. »