Antonym: cheap. Similar words: mostly, honestly, cost, costume, at any cost, at all costs, at the cost of, the cost of living. Meaning: ['kɒstlɪ] adj. 1. entailing great loss or sacrifice 2. having a high price.
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211. The utilization of many large costly and rare implements needed in the test of high-angle fire, such as the photograph theodolite, ballistic camera etc, are avoided by using the method.
212. It was often better thanmaking international phone calls , which were cumbersome, crackly and costly.
213. We use oceanographic research vessels but they are very limited in their operational capabilities and are also very costly.
214. CNBC said IBM decided against the move after looking at Sun's structured contracts, as well as change of control clauses that would make an acquisition of the company costly.
215. Even raw chicken in the grocery store is sometimes 'enhanced' with salt water to make it plumper (and heavier,(www.Sentencedict.com) and thus more costly).
216. The sea-going eunuchs fell from favour (Zheng's missions were staggeringly costly) and by 1500 it was a capital offence to go to sea in a two-masted ship without permission.
217. The unscalable case expression and the unreusable reasoning process lead to the development and the maintenance of the systems difficult and costly.
218. The solder style ZWB 999's may be installed without disassembly, saving costly installation time.
219. Reliability is very important in the chemical process industries (CPI). a faulty piece of equipment, process upset or leak can cause costly downtime.
220. Three-piece is more costly, but is easier to disassemble and offers in-line repairability. Available in full- or standard-port balls.
221. Using an MFT strategy could result in a 2.5 to three-fold increase in the amount of time a single drug could be used, Boni added, reducing costly surveillance methods for drug resistance.
222. Switzerland struggled to convince skeptical European neighbors to support its ambitious and costly TransAlpine rail plans in the 1990s.
223. Bush signed on July 26, 1990, can be burdensome, costly and an overextension of the government's authority over the private sector, others say it could be stronger.
224. If just one story about a costly quarantine ( of ISPM 15 noncompliant cargo ) gets in the press, it could be a real threat to the wood pallet industry.
225. The most costly health facility is the one that fails.
226. This devotional is by Jon Walker, editor of the Daily Hope Devotionals and author of Costly Grace: A Contemporary View of Bonhoeffer's ‘The Cost of Discipleship.
227. It may have been too costly, tied down too many men, and came to symbolize France’s defensive attitude, but the Great Wall of France fulfilled its designated mission.
228. Developers will move files to and from the version management server frequently and any breakdown of the system will likely be very costly in terms of developer productivity.
229. Those who could flee the public system for costly private schools, or for the eight semi-private schools run on the British system, did so.
230. The new transformer design used an ungapped pot core that was less costly and easier to obtain than a gapped pot core.
231. Although web services allow online offerings to connect, for instance, it is costly to synchronise their data.
232. Energy and the technology to desalinate water are both expensive, and this means that desalinating water can be pretty costly.
233. A demand thus arises for elaborate and costly manufactured articles, adapted to a narrow but a wealthy market.
234. Don't count on the bumper to hold up during a low-speed collision. And that fender-bender could be costly.
235. Surface-to-surface missile weapon system is very huge and costly, and it has little opportunity to join actual combat.
236. They changed their eating habits: instead of costly fruit and meat, Sherrill buys beans and corn and peanut butter, and looks for day-old loaves of bread.
237. Zahavi's handicap principle states that an honest signal must be costly to the signaler, meaning that only fit individuals can signal honestly.
238. But the program has critics. They say trying to supply every child with a laptop, even at the current price of one hundred sixty dollars, is costly and inefficient.
239. That would be the longshoremen's union, which has negotiated very costly insurance benefits.
240. This saves costly repairs to existing servos and eliminates difficulties in obtaining spare parts for obsolete equipment. Learn more from EHPS product spec 03342.
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