6 sentences with “expense”

Some species of cuckoos have made an art of living at the expense of others.

I am not referring to laughter at the expense of other people's sorrows, but to the convenience of laughing at one's own.

Julie made what she calls "a very conscious decision" to put her family first, at the expense of her career if necessary.

While the long-term economic pattern was that the wealthier sections of society tended to become even richer at the expense of the common people, there remained a significant "middle class" that enjoyed a relatively high standard of living.

Henry's economic measures had come at the expense of some of the company's most valuable - albeit intangible - resources, as the period from 1919 to 1921 marked the disappearance of several members of Ford's management, whose skills and experience were never replaced.

In 81 BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla was made dictator; he greatly strengthened the power of the Senate at the expense of the Plebeian Assembly, had his enemies in Rome murdered and their property confiscated, and then retired to a life of debauchery on his private property (and soon died of an illness he contracted).