How To Use Exorbitant In A Sentence

We want to defer the exorbitant, latter-day costs of all that energy binging, masquerading as democracy "preachifying"? Alec Baldwin: It's Time To Suck It Up And Pay Our Bill
** Ariftotle, "fays Lord Bacon, * 'thought, like the Ottoman princes, cfaat fee cottid not reign fecure, unleis he. deilroyed all his brethren; *' nor was his Hterary ambition more exclufive than exorbitant* The Monthly Review
Personal valets glide silently past, afternoon tea is served at exorbitant prices, and trinkets of the previous visitors are left in some of the rooms - Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Noël Coward.
The sum which he demanded appeared exorbitant to the hadji, who, forgetting that he was a saint, and fresh from Mecca, fumed outrageously, and in broken Spanish called the boatman thief. The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
They gave the officers to understand that far from wishing to act as enemies, they were willing to afford the shipwrecked people all the assistance in their power; but these barbarians shewed, on all occasions, a perfidiousness which is peculiar to the inhabitants of these climates; when the brig had sent biscuit on shore, they seized the half of it, and a few moments after, sold it at an exorbitant price, to those from whom they had stolen it. Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English

And no wonder, for although some counselling services are free, or at least buckshee at the point of delivery, others charge exorbitant rates.
If beneficiaries in PFFS plans did not contact their plans before obtaining services to ensure that the service was covered, they may have had to “pay for the entire cost of the service if the coverage was later denied” and PFFS plans charged exorbitant cost-sharing to beneficiaries who did not “prenotify” a plan before obtaining services. Wonk Room » Administration Releases Regulations To Scale Back Unfair Insurance Practices
I would not accept that the clamper could exact any unreasonable or exorbitant charge for releasing the car, and the court would be very slow to find implied acceptance of such a charge. Clamping And The Law: Guest Post
The same could happen with the net - we'll have national nets with firewalls and exorbitant charges.
Imagine the anger a tenant must feel when presented with a large bill for extra charges on top of an already exorbitant rent. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, they must pay exorbitant prices for food, water and tools and end up working to pay this back for years.
DigitalBulletin says Virgin has said no more than it`ll offer a million tracks, the identical standard fare the Big Four record labels flog to all their customers at exorbitant wholesale prices. HMV, Virgin, music downloads
He guided "tenderfeet," charging exorbitant rates; he gambled Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
Virgil stared deep into the grease spots on the garage floor, as if by reading their patterns and by some mystic mode of divination, petrolmancy perhaps, he would arrive at a price that would not ali-enate the dark young man but would still assure him an exorbitant hourly rate for his labor. Practical Demonkeeping
Second, I don't think an aristocracy is a necessary condition for the appreciation and expression of craftspersonship, in part because I don't think craft is necessarily exorbitantly expensive. Meringue is Evil
You can either pay your exorbitant monthly bill in advance, or pay an even more exorbitant lump sum up front, which works like an annuity. FATAL FLAW
So, here's the best compliment I can pay Rian Johnson's debut film, Brick: my friend Hagay and I drove to Jerusalem an hour's drive, where the film was playing as part of the Jerusalem film festival, battled the city's unfamiliar streets and mid-day traffic, paid an exorbitant amount of money for a parking place that turned out to be a ten minute walk away from the cinematheque, and missed the film's first few minutes. Archive 2006-07-01
Given the exorbitant cost of authentic civet scrapings nowadays, Civet absolute is often formulated from civetone, a synthetic alternative.
So, are you tired of paying exorbitant amounts for those dry little critters?
Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant. Erma Bombeck
Exorbitant housing prices have created an acute shortage of affordable housing for the poor.
Rental of ski equipment, and the lessons, were not cheap but nor were they exorbitant.
Sometimes you can't justify paying the exorbitant fees that others do. Times, Sunday Times
I love bats, but the price seemed exorbitant. Times, Sunday Times
Another annoying trend is to ask for an exorbitant amount in the hope that a small amount will be offer as a means of appeasing the aggrieved person.
And his stance on the exorbitant profits of oil companies while record high gas prices continue to soar is just plain sorry. Think Progress » 32%
How can any businessperson justify charging such an exorbitant price for apple pie and tea?
I thought at the time," said Mr. Branghton, "that three shillings was an exorbitant price for a place in the gallery: but as we'd been asked so much at the other doors, why I paid it without many words; but, then, to be sure, thinks I, it can never be like any other gallery, we shall see some crinkum-crankum or other for our money; but I find it's as arrant a take-in as ever I met with. Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
Biogas has a tremendous future, due to the exorbitant increase of gasoline prices.
We were only shylocked once - an exorbitantly priced lunch, the final total of which bore no earthly resemblance to the prices of the food we'd seen inside the door just moments before.
Publicans admit they are ripping off customers with exorbitant prices for soft drinks.
You have an exorbitant auditory impediment," replied the doctor, conscious of the necessity for maintaining a certain iatric mystique, and fully aware that "a pea in the ear" was unlikely to earn him any kudos. Bookworm
Since moving to Swindon in my late 20s I have also had bad experiences with dentists, leaving me untrusting and I have paid exorbitant prices for both private and NHS dentistry.
But where the defendant is domiciled within the jurisdiction such an order cannot be regarded as exorbitant or as going beyond what is internationally acceptable.
But there can be no excuse for the exorbitant price of snacks once you are inside. The Sun
The exorbitant costs of childcare are also an acute anxiety to many. Times, Sunday Times
prices are exorbitantly high in the capital
Of course, people who agree to pay such exorbitant fees also have to take some responsibility. Times, Sunday Times
A few farmers even managed to do very well out of the exorbitant prices charged to urban residents for a few mouthfuls of grain.
Nor, says Mr Imai, should they be allowed to write off the exorbitant sums they spend on promoting group-wide harmony.
Petty regulations and exorbitant ticket prices meant most grounds were only one-third full and utterly sanitised. The Sun
After some most extraordinary bargaining and after tempting him with solid, visible gold, we each secured a scjambok and a knobkerry at exorbitant prices, and left him even then grumbling and growling. In the Ranks of the C.I.V.
It is difficult problem to protect computer software sufficiently but not exorbitantly in the legislative choice and protection of all countries, which is also international problem.
This rider announces an exorbitant price for wheat, indicating famine prices , the sorrowful result of war.
M. de Narbonne, somewhat indign de la mauvaise foi, and excd des longueurs de son adversaire, was not quite so gentle with him, and I was glad to perceive that he meant to resist, in some degree at least, the exorbitant demands of his landlord. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
People have to pay up, no matter how exorbitant the fee. The Sun
I. i.172 (320,1) strain'd pride] The oldest copy reads _strayed pride_; that is, _pride exorbitant_; pride passing due bounds. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
I think it's difficult for those of us who were not there to focus on the server's behavior in that context, although my general opinion is that if a restaurant wants to serve expensive wine at an exorbitant mark-up (which is almost a given) they should defer to any wine "nerdiness" that walks through the door, whether it be rude or not. Rough Restaurant Experience With Wine Offers Reminder: Vintage Matters
These exorbitant fees are a scandal. The Sun
His conscientiousness was his capital ... and he exacted an exorbitant interest for it. Dream tales and prose poems
Prices tend to become exorbitant, especially in areas of highest demand. Introduction to Social Administration in Britain
The exorbitant cost of health care is distorting the entire economy in America. An Introduction to Community Health
These were the casual sallies of his pride; but the avarice of the chagan was a more steady and tractable passion: a rich and regular supply of silk apparel, furniture, and plate, introduced the rudiments of art and luxury among the tents of the Scythians; their appetite was stimulated by the pepper and cinnamon of India; the annual subsidy or tribute was raised from fourscore to one hundred and twenty thousand pieces of gold; and after each hostile interruption, the payment of the arrears, with exorbitant interest, was always made the first condition of the new treaty. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
Only 10 to 15 percent goes toward administrative costs, which is certainly not exorbitant.
The classic complaints involve poor punctuality, delays caused by engineering works and exorbitant fares.
Then maybe we'd see a reduction in the exorbitant licence fee. The Sun
By Kathleen Brady Shea INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Chester County, one of the region's most affluent locales, has been identified as the healthiest place to live in issues incense citizens more than the exorbitant bonuses awarded to corporate executives, and yet little has been done to stop this practice. WN.com - Articles related to Poor children a year behind when they start school, study says
Each year time and money is wasted by the exorbitant amount of telephoning required to gather in all this information. 8.
'The papilionaceous and exorbitant auditory impediment?' Captain Corelli's Mandolin
This ingredient was not used, because, not being in the tariff, it was thought that, should it be imported, it would in all probability be classed under "perfumeries," and charged an exorbitant duty. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
Most of the works are for sale, often at scarily exorbitant prices.
Upon this principle, I suppose they attach an exorbitant value to thawed water during six months of the year, when the Neva is a solid block of ice. The Land of Thor
It was he, too, who laid before Lady Southdown the great advantages which might occur from an intimacy between her family and Miss Crawley, advantages both worldly and spiritual, he said: for Miss Crawley was now quite alone; the monstrous dissipation and alliance of his brother Rawdon had estranged her affections from that reprobate young man; the greedy tyranny and avarice of Mrs. Bute Crawley had caused the old lady to revolt against the exorbitant pretensions of that part of the family; and though he himself had held off all his life from cultivating Miss Crawleys friendship, with perhaps an improper pride, he thought now that every becoming means should be taken, both to save her soul from perdition, and to secure her fortune to himself as the head of the house of Crawley. XXXIII. In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious about Her
Thus, the entire industry is one big sham, endlessly killing dinosaurs and wasting coal at an exorbitant rate.
Besides, shop owners charge an exorbitant rate for every thing they sell here.
In some cases the already exorbitant fees have tripled in a year. The Sun
The only way to get more is to attack checkpoints, or to buy them from unscrupulous soldiers at exorbitant prices. Times, Sunday Times
The casino rejected this amount as exorbitant and allowed her suit to continue.
It is disheartening and I'm sure there are many more people that are 'gatvol' of government just sitting back with their exorbitant salaries and letting these strikers be. News24 Top Stories
More likely, non-expat / nouveau punters are being put off by the exorbitant prices.
The buildings are usually controlled by slumlords who overfill the flats, charge exorbitant rents and allow the buildings to become rundown.
They are just boring movie idols admired for their fashion sense and the exorbitant price tags of their weddings.
An option would be to leave the car at home and take an autorickshaw (though it will not offer a discount and demand an exorbitant fare).
But that stemware doesn't demand such exorbitant markups.
She was disturbed to find that the prices were exorbitant for the size of her purse.
The only winners here are the administrators who get their pound of flesh by charging exorbitant sums of money, while all about lose theirs. Times, Sunday Times
He had the cheek to tell workers their demand, which will mean a rise of as little as 30p an hour, was ‘exorbitant’.
Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant. Erma Bombeck
However, consumer groups argue that banks should not impose such exorbitant penalty charges as they do not reflect the costs incurred when customers exceed borrowing limits.
This resulted in a stressful, mad scramble in a foreign country, trying to book a last-minute hotel that wasn't exorbitantly priced during a very busy film festival.
We cannot allow a situation where property is taxed at exorbitant levels while the money is squandered on inessentials and perks for the powerful.
Private moneylenders charge exorbitant interest rates of 30 to 50 percent for a 5-6 month growing season.
the kidnapper's exorbitant demands for money
The government has accused white farmers of delaying land reform by demanding exorbitant prices for their property.
Foreign truckers cash in by exploiting the exorbitant prices of diesel sold at the pumps in Britain. The Sun
At present the price of land in the area has rocketed with some very exorbitant prices being paid for sites for houses.
Over 35 per cent said they were taken to shops where the prices were exorbitant.
The mind boggles, and there is nothing to suggest that residents could have any input other than those elected members who recently ruined the evening economy by introducing such exorbitant parking charges.
Speaking on behalf of the group, Liau accused China Steel of oversupplying Chinese steel markets in pursuit of exorbitant profits and ignoring the demands of local downstream businesses.
Heel is exorbitant, walk flabby, easy sprain gambrel, cause sufficient painful, lumbago.
Word has it that the prices are so exorbitant because the taxi drivers have to give the resort a cut for operating there.
Even though interest rates had fallen by 2.75% in the past three years, he said the cost of borrowing for business still remained exorbitantly high.
As the Soviet Union found during its economic crisis in the 1980s, spending an exorbitant amount ... ndash; almost a trillion dollars by the US today ... ndash; on military nonproduction is simply unsustainable. Kissinger's recovery plan: WTO or 'chaos'
At points along the perimeter of the crowd local residents tended smoky turf fires and plied their trade of selling cups of tea at exorbitant prices.
Though the costs paid to those in the network are exorbitant, it guarantees safety and allows payment to be staggered over time.
If they are going to be charged an exorbitant price for a piece of cloth shaped into a tea dress, then why not take advantage? Times, Sunday Times
Along the way our building committee became very discouraged about a number of complications, especially the exorbitant cost. Christianity Today
Perhaps the day will come when the journals hoarding this material will stop trying to collect exorbitant fees from it, especially that which is locked away in archives, and will make it available free of charge online, actually contributing to what ought to be the mission of scholarly journals in the first place, which is precisely to foster informed discussion of the subjects on which they focus. January 2010
The exorbitant rates charged at spas mean it is only for the A-list.
The middle classes were spending the greater part of their time in devising methods by which the exorbitant and intempestive demands of the collectors could be either evaded or, more rarely, complied with. First and Last
If you like paying exorbitant premiums to people who are only interested in lining their own pockets, then so be it. Top Dem aide: 'Significant policy issues' could still derail deal
Embittered Tarn seemed finally resigned to its vassal status and paid its exorbitant taxes without a murmur. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
When thus, by the depreciation in consequence of the quantity of paper in circulation, wages as well as prices become exorbitant, it is soon found that the whole effect of the adulteration is a tariff on our home industry for the benefit of the countries where gold and silver circulate and maintain uniformity and moderation in prices. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term)
Exorbitant housing prices have created an acute shortage of affordable housing for the poor.
All too often, a shopper impulsively pays an exorbitant sum for a puppy, with little or no real knowledge of its origins.
In Punjab, exorbitant prices of wheat, rice, barley and salt, fuelled great discontent that took the form of anti-Rowlatt Act agitations and protests.
But in the salary-cap era, front-loading contracts and exorbitant signing bonuses severely hamper a franchise's room for manoeuvre and ability to challenge individuals with avarice in their hearts.
That seaside hotel charges exorbitant prices during the summer holidays.
Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant. Erma Bombeck
When thus, by depreciation in consequence of the quantity of paper in circulation, wages as well as prices become exorbitant, it is soon found that the whole effect of the adulteration is a tariff on our home industry for the benefit of the countries where gold and silver circulate and maintain uniformity and moderation in prices. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
He argued that yes, executive salaries are exorbitant but you have to pay what someone would get in America, otherwise you're not going to get them or keep them.
Exorbitant claims are inherent in another title genre: things that have changed the world. Culture Making
It would be absurd to conclude that a regulator cannot review such exorbitant charges. Times, Sunday Times
They're charging an exorbitant price for fixing the car, but they've got us over a barrel because we can't do without it.
M. de Narbonne, somewhat indigne de la mauvaise foi, and excédé des longueurs de son adversaire, was not quite so gentle with him, and I was glad to perceive that he meant to resist, in some degree at least, the exorbitant demands of his landlord. Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
It tastes exactly like the stuff that you buy for exorbitant sums of money from glassed-in confection palaces. Archive 2007-12-01
The demands for porterage were so exorbitant next morning, that we set out on foot under the guidance of Tom Peter. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
He feared it would lead to a situation where private people allotted spaces at exorbitant prices to vehicle owners.
Only 10 to 15 percent goes toward administrative costs, which is certainly not exorbitant.
In school-board elections in early April, none of the candidates endorsed by the Rockford Tea Party won, while two of three candidates endorsed by the teachers' union did—even though the tea party's pre-election media blitz linked property taxes to teacher pay the party said was exorbitant. Tea Party Heads to School
Unwilling to borrow from the local bank at exorbitant interest, he sought out the collector from the Shanghai wholesale house, to plead with him as a friend for a delay of another day or two.
The 58-year-old, who made his name fronting the band The Police, claimed that the war on drugs had been used to "militarise" law enforcement in America and was "a pretext to lock people in prison for exorbitant lengths of time". The First Post: Latest
Who in their right mind would pay the exorbitant prices they charge for everything?
I promise that you will never again have to pay exorbitant amounts to get your children into med school.
Exorbitantly priced restaurants, for one week, set up a special menu for us swarthy groundlings.
Even if you have to pay someone - an upholsterer, a seamstress or tailor, a fashion student - the fee shouldn't be exorbitant.
Will she also be happy if her lights go out because of a dependency on such a fickle power source after paying exorbitant subsidies? Times, Sunday Times
Running costs are exorbitant, too. Times, Sunday Times
And then I would get discounts, which is good, because the prices of rugs are exorbitant.
Some of the medication used for secondary infections in HIV positive patie nts such as fluconazole, are much cheaper in other countries yet in South Africa their exorbitant cost is responsible for deaths especially amongst poor people who are unable to purchase these drugs. Article by Dr Zweli Mkhize on the HIV/AIDS debate
And while cameras don't tear the flesh off the victims' bones, the damage to their lives is often exorbitant and irremediable. Carlo Strenger: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Media Circus and the Roman Arena
It is not about eliminating all trade, but rather about reducing to an absolute minimum the exorbitant waste now caused by having everything from butter to raw logs criss-crossing back and forth across the globe.
My family won't be having one as savings will have to go to paying exorbitant gas, elec and water bills. The Sun
They were concerned that elderly women living alone seemed to be targeted and charged exorbitant prices.
Laws came down like hail; crimes were recounted and particularized with minute prolixity; penalties were absurdly exorbitant; and if that were not enough, capable of augmentation in almost every case, at the will of the legislator himself and of a hundred executives; the forms of procedure studied only how to liberate the judge from every impediment in the way of passing a sentence of condemnation; the sketches we have given of the proclamations against the bravoes are a feeble but true index of this. Chapter I
What action soever of thine therefore that either immediately or afar off, hath not reference to the common good, that is an exorbitant and disorderly action; yea it is seditious; as one among the people who from such and such a consent and unity, should factiously divide and separate himself. Meditations
We had been charged a fairly exorbitant price for a full-blooded Pug.
Unsuspecting buyers paid exorbitant prices for their railroad stock.
The exorbitant cost of health care is distorting the entire economy in America. An Introduction to Community Health
Having to pay exorbitant parking charges once you get there matters. Times, Sunday Times
'You have an exorbitant auditory impediment,' replied the doctor, ever conscious of the necessity for maintaining a certain iatric mystique, and fully aware that 'a pea in the ear 'was unlikely to earn him any kudos. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
She quoted a price, exorbitant for the boondocks but which she guessed would be cheap for a city person.
The direct and indirect costs will be exorbitant. Times, Sunday Times
Passing exorbitant Rodeo Drive on my left, I saw, stretching away south, a street that seemed to have normal shops, and family cars bearing the normal scuffs of suburban use.
The exorbitant cost of health care is distorting the entire economy in America. An Introduction to Community Health
Tyres and tubes were rationed but could be purchased on the black market at exorbitant prices.
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Paying for parking, programs and putting up with exorbitant food prices are just a few of the burdens horseplayers must bear.
He owns and possesses in garish, exorbitant fashion. Coming Heavy | PopPolitics.com
It is not about eliminating all trade, but rather about reducing to an absolute minimum the exorbitant waste now caused by having everything from butter to raw logs criss-crossing back and forth across the globe.
Fund managers get to refresh portfolios and look like they might actually be doing something to justify their exorbitant management fees. Times, Sunday Times
The Republicans he seeks to satisfy are ideological goofballs like Iowa's Sen. Chuck Grassley, who wails that a nonprofit public insurance option would offer better deals to consumers than the mingy, exorbitantly expensive health care policies sold by the monopolistic insurance giants. Goofing Up Health Care Reform

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