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US
/ˌɛkˈspɛnsɪvɫi/
]
[ UK /ɛkspˈɛnsɪvli/ ]
[ UK /ɛkspˈɛnsɪvli/ ]
ADVERB
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in an expensive manner
an expensively dressed little man turned a corner and approached her
How To Use expensively In A Sentence
- Poor-quality repairs to guttering, fascia boards and roofs are carried out quickly but expensively - with problems coming to light only after payment has been made and the trader has long gone.
- The Reiksguard forms an elite core of highly trained, expensively-equipped troops who are loyal to the Emperor in person.
- an expensively dressed little man turned a corner and approached her
- All three projects can be easily and inexpensively made in a matter of hours from a few scrap sheets of plywood.
- Most of them love a drink, a surprising number of them smoke, and they almost all eat well, by which I mean expensively and luxuriously. Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger lite.
- When selling expensively, we return earn much ah!
- It consists of adding two human proteins, lactoferrin and lysozyme, which are produced inexpensively in genetically modified (GM) rice plants, to rice-based oral rehydration solution. Activism in the Time of Cholera
- They disdained make-up and shampoo but drove nice cars and lived in expensively decorated tree-houses.
- Both may have expensively assembled defences but that is not why they are conceding so few goals. The Sun
- You can get a ruffler quite inexpensively if you watch the sales at the fabric store and use your half price or 40% off coupon. Alfred Augustus Glendening 1861-1903