How To Use Overprice In A Sentence

  • And I think the resort is about 25% overpriced, considering the worn-down state of the place and the fact you can get a two-night package at the definitely more upmarket Avillion in Port Dickson (also not really PD, but a dozen kilometres south) from about RM800 as well. Vacations: Tiara Beach Resort — Fusion Despatches
  • If you can't find this gem then other options are fast-food outlets and overpriced junk food. The Sun
  • While things are bad now, I've noticed that blue collar families that had jobs during the boom, but couldn't afford to get into one of the overprices houses are now snatching up foreclosures, fixing them up and living the dream. Current.com top stories
  • But apart from the tapas bar on the top floor, this was a disappointment - unless you have a penchant for overpriced, mumsy clothes and twee ornaments, don't bother including it on your itinerary.
  • These hot-swappable gadgets add fantastic new features to the phones - even if some of them are a little overpriced. The Sun
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  • Most restaurants offer an optional "couvert", often an overpriced dish of olives and pickled carrots, broccoli and cucumber and a few gulls 'eggs. Rio De Janeiro
  • In the meantime, Specialized have certainly proven that the Globe Roll is indeed the perfect bike with which to "slay" an overpriced food run. Warming the Cockles: Living, Breathing, Shopping
  • But if you spend most of your mobile life writing texts or making calls, you'll probably find these touchscreen divas rather ungainly and overpriced. Times, Sunday Times
  • I can't really complain since it's my own decision and I'm going back to Hafnarfjörður with a spanking new, albeit overpriced due to run amok inflation, bike. * ring ring* MMOz
  • Bear this in mind the next time you queue for an overpriced cup of skinny latte. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was just another boring city, filled with meddlesome people and merchants who like to drag you to their stands against your wishes, insisting that you buy something outrageously overpriced.
  • Robert Shiller, a Yale economist who has presciently issued warnings about overpriced equities and houses, has already suggested that farmland might be the subject of the next bubble.
  • It was hideously overpriced in a stagnant housing market.
  • Call me Marxist if you must, but since when does blowing away money on overpriced, inessential and short-lived goods constitute a subversive act?
  • To be fair, CUP is not the only press that overprices its books. Ferule & Fescue
  • It has long been rumored in Sweden that when his self-discipline fails and he drinks an overpriced Coke out of a hotel minibar, he will go to a grocery store to buy a replacement.
  • This is in part traceable to the overvalued dollar that overprices American services in foreign markets. Can the US Compete?
  • If a house is overpriced it may not sell. Times, Sunday Times
  • Finally, I discovered I can cycle easily to a biggish supermarket nearby, which is a great relief in terms of buying food that is not too overpriced and unnecessarily organic and biodynamic and enzymatically enriched and whatever else the local whole earth store peddles. A working woman
  • It's not like selling an overpriced ballcock assembly to some jack ass who bought the complete Time-Life Home Repair series at a yard sale. Archive 2009-01-11
  • Thanks to high-pressure selling, seven out of ten loans are sold with PPI, which is hugely overpriced.
  • We've got charmingly overpriced neighborhood boutiques, designer shops on Madison, endless tchotchke bazaars crowding the parks and big, dumb chain stores lining Fifth Avenue. Holidays at the Pawn Shop
  • Now, a competent, perceptive drinker will immediately remark that hotel bars are overpriced.
  • I have little enthusiasm for soft drinks at the best of times; much less when they're shamelessly overpriced.
  • The real wildness, it suggests, is here where the great pharmaceutical multinationals have been happily dumping suspect, untried and overpriced drugs onto the vulnerable African market.
  • ‘What we've had to do up to now is overprice things at the beginning, to compensate for underpricing at the end of the season,’ he explains.
  • August has passed and places that just a fortnight previously were overpriced and overcrowded are now blissfully deserted. Times, Sunday Times
  • When going to the cinema he makes his own popcorn at home because it is so overpriced. Times, Sunday Times
  • But they encountered a parade of overpriced dumps with filthy carpets and features such as tangerine linoleum and avocado appliances.
  • He's too busy living the Zagat lifestyle, munching herbed French fries in designer clothing at overpriced restaurants with fellow trendoids who are all cheating on each other.
  • This has kept international phone calls horribly overpriced and internet access equally and maddeningly slow.
  • Given that houses are already overpriced that is depressing news for young people who are struggling to get a first foot on the housing ladder. Times, Sunday Times
  • This was no overpriced, limp backrub with plinkety-plink music. Times, Sunday Times
  • The options were overpriced, unattractive and could make a super model look terrible.
  • See, the internet cafe is totally overpriced and charges two bucks for a medium coffee.
  • Housing adjacent to Lake Bacalar is or at least was overpriced for this out-of-the-way place so maybe it´s not a nice place to settle for all year residency if you are a gregarious foreigner and, to be honest about it, a few months there as your only place to be may induce you to go swimming in the lake with weights around your ankles and commit an exquisite suicide in peace. Bacalar
  • I know the food in some of the top restaurants can seem a little overpriced. Times, Sunday Times
  • The activities are wildly overpriced, in particular diving. Times, Sunday Times
  • Well just take comfort that they are still paying and paying not only for their overpriced real estate and sky-high property taxes and association dues but also big bucks to solve that horrendous algae problem in their little lake. Wednesday lunch in L.O. (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • Maybe its a ploy to get me to eat and drink loads of overpriced choccy and wine from the fridge while I surf the porno sites.
  • Railways are paralysed, overcrowded and overpriced through epic incompetence. The Sun
  • Since telephone calls are overprices bits & bytes this telco dinosaurs is about to die. like photos on celluloid (Polaroid) like news on paper (The Economist) AT&T Continues Its Attack Against Google Voice With A Second Letter To The FCC
  • August has passed and places that just a fortnight previously were overpriced and overcrowded are now blissfully deserted. Times, Sunday Times
  • Overpriced in my opinion, but at least on the brink of bearability, even with my curmudgeonly grumbling.
  • We should be funding our buses through the taxes we're already paying for Sound Transit (buses are a more effective and efficient form of transportation than overpriced train boondoggles) Sound Politics: Endorsements!
  • And you don't suit a client by bringing out an overpriced replica shirt one summer and then changing it the next. The Sun
  • It was the realisation that this was overpriced and tricky to claim on that kicked off the mis-selling scandal. Times, Sunday Times
  • I think Fenders are okay but overpriced, and Bentley overprices them even more. Fengh Diary Entry
  • Robert Shiller, a Yale economist who has presciently issued warnings about overpriced equities and houses, has already suggested that farmland might be the subject of the next bubble.
  • Hackneyed and sterile, the Rockwell is ideal if you are looking for vastly overpriced drinks served by offhand waiters with pathetically slow service.
  • That shows the disrespect today's footballers have for the people who have to pay for overpriced football tickets. The Sun
  • The overpriced teriyaki at Bryant Park is dismissible. Get Arepas and Kettle Corn at the Bryant Park Holiday Market | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
  • Given that houses are already overpriced that is depressing news for young people who are struggling to get a first foot on the housing ladder. Times, Sunday Times
  • The real estate agent was gloomy, with a defeated slouch, and he shuffled us morosely through the overpriced apartment that all of us knew we would not rent. Day of Honey
  • So, a program "works" if it pays people enough to get them to do something they otherwise would consider irrational - to buy something so overpriced it would fail in an unrigged market. Uncle Sam in the driver's seat
  • It has become overpriced, overrated and overrun with ridiculous people who live absurd lives.
  • Cheap merchandise was overpriced to start with, then sold on time with fantastic interest.
  • The exception were landholders who made a killing because of their ability to visualize the future 57th Street, or thereabouts, not as glacial rock and weeds but as an international crossroads with half-naked male models serving sentry at stores selling overpriced stone-washed jeans, and loud-mouthed real-estate moguls who build garish skyscrapers. Grateful for Our Grid
  • And we're sold overpriced food and drink? Times, Sunday Times
  • My disenchantment with the bad overpriced food of Manhattan has led me many times to delve into this underground guerilla dining scene that is almost completely unmined – and yet is hiding in plain sight right in front of us. Look… Midtown Lunch Now Famous Downtown!?! | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
  • Unlike the stuffy, overpriced hotel restaurants of yesteryear, the new dining options can stand up to the best epicurean eateries.
  • I make spot inspections and sometimes leave with an occasional bottle of overpriced firewater.
  • Now and then these old tomes are overpriced, but on occasion you can find fantastic books for giveaway prices.
  • What They cannot know is that dumbness—Cheepness—sincere and vital ignorance—reveal far more about the interestingly violent and taboo world around us than any overpriced geegaw that Pincritics have told us is “art” or “science.” The Book of the SubGenius
  • That shows the disrespect today's footballers have for the people who have to pay for overpriced football tickets. The Sun
  • However bloated nearly 2 1⁄2 hours, just as Black Pearl shouldn’t have been and saggy in its midsection, if you’re at all into squiggly tentacles, all sizes, or Depp’s hilarious, feyly swanning characterization, this is the most satisfying big-screen excuse for overpriced popcorn so far this summer. Reviewing the Reviews: 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest' | EW.com
  • Railways are paralysed, overcrowded and overpriced through epic incompetence. The Sun
  • If you blew your holiday shopping and entertaining budget, skip toasting the New Year with expensive champagne at an overpriced party or ritzy restaurant.
  • The grout, adhesive, underlayment board and other materials may be way overpriced. Low-stress methods for installing ceramic tile
  • Thankfully, I never bought category 1-3 tickets as I felt they were overprices, but it concerns me that those who supported FIFA first will be punished, while those who were last will be rewarded with good seating. News24 Top Stories
  • When I asked him whether these substantial price cuts were because the top end models had been overpriced and underselling, he said that these reductions had been long-planned.
  • The unintended consequence is empowerment of the moneyed few that can still afford the overpriced beltway pettifogger who knows the ropes. Stuart Whatley: This Side of Democracy
  • Lots of footballers go, and some of the rooms are palatial, but others are teeny-weeny; I think it's obscenely overpriced for what it is.
  • The drinks are atrociously overpriced and under-strong.
  • That shows the disrespect today's footballers have for the people who have to pay for overpriced football tickets. The Sun
  • There are second hand shops in Manhattan but they tend to be either overpriced or hard to find.
  • They love to panic customers into buying their overpriced insurance cover.
  • If you can't find this gem then other options are fast-food outlets and overpriced junk food. The Sun
  • The cafes on Place de la Comedie are overpriced, I recommend a sprint up the small hill towards the Prefecture: loads of great nosheries around Place Jean Jaures.
  • No one wants an overpriced shoeshine and he must feel he's losing a certain sale because he begins to shine Ames shoes, even though she said no.
  • I coul reinvent the small puppies without eyes, and sell them to an enourmuos overprices. A Turnover in Virginia - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • That they'd be able to get the overpriced box off the shelf and replace it with one that's cheaper and equally capable is a miracle I'm not expecting, though -- my guess is that it's a simpler SKU that will sell alongside, not replace, the proper PS3. Archive 2009-05-01
  • . though I guess after the obligatory book, there will be a 'collab' hopefully with Hopper ! of some sorts and then a line of overpriced, merino, signature gear. The BSNYC Second Annual Self-Congratulatory Treacle-Fest!
  • Shoes aside (for they are the most perfect, gorgeous shoes I have ever owned or am ever likely to own), Prada clothing turns out to be overpriced tat which doesn't last.
  • This shows two things - new builds are outrageously overpriced and the housing bubble burst some time ago.
  • If a house is overpriced it may not sell. Times, Sunday Times
  • The days when organic food conjured up images of overpriced vegetables decomposing before the eyes are well and truly over.
  • Last year he bought me a huge bunch of flowers but they were overpriced and really naff, with crystals sewn into the roses. The Sun
  • The drinks are overpriced, and the post-work crowd is so upper-middle-class it hurts.
  • I find it so much more convenient than queueing at some overpriced bar or café. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was held at the galleries of Schliemann-Wooley, which specialized in overpriced antiquities. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
  • You have the fish - your piranha, your suckers, your blowfish, your sharks, your bottom feeders, your overpriced tuna.
  • Some people love them, others think they are overpriced and worn by fashion victims and posers.
  • The coffee itself is better than some, not as good as others, but profanely overpriced.
  • Somewhere between the overpriced boutique hotels and the bargain hostels lie the special places with great service, "buena onda" (a good vibe) and rates that make you assume there has been a misprint. South America: Perfect posadas
  • Don't stand outside a window by the Rangers' office on 33rd street and seventh avenue or you might get hit by an overpriced veteran getting thrown out the window.
  • Sometimes, the house is overpriced, or there are factors like being on a busy road, that we can't change.
  • Finally, Ian steps away, off to buy his daily rationing of overpriced, indigestible slop.
  • Maybe the three pints of overpriced sickly-sweet lager helped, I dunno.
  • That shows the disrespect today's footballers have for the people who have to pay for overpriced football tickets. The Sun
  • I find it so much more convenient than queueing at some overpriced bar or café. Times, Sunday Times
  • In reality, I was looking for new digs, a climate healthier than the overpriced acres of buggy floodplain my wife, Kitty, and I owned.
  • Property in the capital is still overpriced, especially at the top end.
  • But it is a judgmental error to reach that conclusion, because the more this goes on, the more overpriced the market is.
  • Parking is horribly overpriced at $7 a pop in the lots and parkades, but worse is the lack of it.
  • Ann ignored the baguettes and sugary cakes, and selected a mince pie which she felt was overpriced at 99p.
  • It offers the best pub style meals in Oxford and proudly sits atop the comfort food throne despite being slightly overpriced.
  • This is the second time in a few weeks that a similar scenario has ensued in different circumstances and I am rather tired of eating overpriced pasta bake and being made to feel that being veggie is a nuisance.
  • Indeed, oversized watch pockets have become common to accommodate all the little electrical geegaws that have replaced the watch as must-have undersized, overpriced miniaturized technology for the hep person on the go.
  • In between, we will bankrupt ourselves in the overpriced airport shops. The Sun
  • Female solo costumes might seem overpriced until you consider that a dressmaker spends 80 to 120 hours on a single costume.
  • As every Delhi mother buys a truckload of gold jewellery for her daughter, most gold is imported and, therefore, hugely overpriced.
  • LOS ANGELES Hollywood Reporter - "Avatar" and standardization of the technology represented "tipping points" for the acceptance of 3D movies, but Hollywood risks killing the golden goose if it overprices tickets and overly saturates the market, according to a study released to The Hollywood Reporter. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Some people love them, others think they are overpriced and worn by fashion victims and posers.
  • Let him patronise his overpriced London restaurants with their indifferent offerings and offhand service.
  • Spending a sweet evening out by dining at any of the many restaurants offering a special New Year's Eve menu where "prix fixe" is French for "ridiculously overpriced? What I'd Be Doing on NYE if I Weren't Sequestered in OC on Babywatch 2007
  • In other words, in a world emptied of inherited values, consuming what look to be overpriced fripperies may be preferable to consuming nothing.
  • Many attractions are overpriced, poorly staffed and often shut on the day you visit.
  • It's an open invitation for overpriced dealer add - ons such as interior protectant, window etching or undercoating.
  • Afterwards, we recovered with tisane at Cafe de Flore, now overpriced, over-bright and catering for a bourgeois clientele, somewhat different from 70 years ago or so.
  • His dream is to make all the foreshores a continuous strip of over priced cafes topped with similarly overpriced apartments.
  • Make sure the price is right The shortage of housing stock at this time of year means an overpriced property will stand out. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tim pointed out that the wine list was titanically overpriced and deeply unimaginative.
  • A savagely overpriced hardware shop. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nobody is going to say that a horse was overpriced, can't jump a bale of hay and has no chance of winning. The Sun
  • The activities are wildly overpriced, in particular diving. Times, Sunday Times
  • My hands are so soft and tender from avoidance of manual toil that I could be a spokesmodel for overpriced emollients.
  • The answer to that question, invariably, will be that the locals won't buy it because it's overpriced and the market is oversupplied.
  • I know the food in some of the top restaurants can seem a little overpriced. Times, Sunday Times
  • They include rising economic insecurity, including the patchy and overpriced health insurance system that Obama is trying, maladroitly, to fix. John McQuaid: When the Political System Breaks, Other Stuff Breaks Too
  • A major altercation was narrowly avoided as 250 thirsty guests swamped the overpriced bar, demanding a drink from one of two hopelessly overworked bar staff.
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  • New legislation would see the resurgence of independently-run local shops, run by surly harridans selling overpriced tins of out-of-date haslet. Archive 2008-02-01
  • Comfort Diner is a crappy, wanna-be-trendy overpriced craphole with lousy food and even lousier service. Comfort Diner Loses Their Lease After 14 Years | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
  • There were no signs, fences or overpriced gift shops. Times, Sunday Times
  • Due to its innate listenability, and the immense crossover popularity of acts like Kruder & Dorfmeister and Zero 7, 'chillout' became the inescapable soundtrack of choice for trendy dinner parties and overpriced boutiques, and has in recent times been left in the dust as a genre of interest, oversaturated via umpteen club, restaurant, bar and boutique compilations that have reduced electronic downtempo to an indistinguishable, beige wall of sound. PopMatters
  • Any property which does not sell within six weeks is overpriced.
  • Stadiums full of pot-bellied goombahs fuelled up on overpriced beer and screaming epithets at people from another city make me feel, well, foreign.
  • My ass felt superglued to the seat of the warm Soma coffee shop, Fido and I sipping overpriced, thin tasting cappuccinos. Fido
  • You will get pulled up in a train which ends underground at a cafe serving overpriced junk food.
  • The mark up and transportation costs may overprice the product, while at the same time its quality may be low.
  • The real problem, beyond the eternal nuisance of scalping, is that TicketsNow began offering overpriced tickets almost immediately after they went on sale through Ticketmaster, and while Ticketmaster apparently lacked the technology to handle what should have been a predictable surge in customers, that was not a problem for TicketsNow resellers: Congressman Wants Ticketmaster Investigated For 'TicketsNow' Website - The Consumerist
  • Spain has a stockpile of about 700,000 unsold empty homes, partly because property is regarded as overpriced. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fattening, useless, cancer-causing tasteless overpriced rubbish. The Sun
  • They're not crazily overpriced.
  • Mind you, unlike many artists of such renown, his paintings are far from being overpriced.
  • It should not be trying to figure out ways to reduce mortgage rates to make payments on an overprices house afforable. Matthew Yglesias » The Costliest Bailout
  • Instead, members of the middle class parenting website logged on to complain that the veteran high-street retailer was "overpriced" for children's clothes no better than those in Tesco and Asda and that rather than sprinkling its stores with stardust, the Myleene Klass range was "chavvy". Mothercare's new boss could take the nuclear option and quit Britain
  • It was a bit easier on me this viewing, since our seats were further back and I hadn't partaken of any of the vile, overpriced but tempting goodies at the candy bar.
  • Surely this would indicate a lengthier commitment than a dozen overpriced and scentless roses? Times, Sunday Times
  • Our author makes sure that you'll truly experience the spirit of aloha, and she'll help you steer clear of anything that's overpriced, touristy, or inauthentic .
  • This was no overpriced, limp backrub with plinkety-plink music. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite being a tad overpriced it is a lovely little apartment.
  • He now cohosts a weekly comedy night at Rififi in New York's East Village, a show that features up-and-coming comics trying out new material, with none of the traditional comedy club's overpriced two-drink minimums.
  • You have the fish - your piranha, your suckers, your blowfish, your sharks, your bottom feeders, your overpriced tuna.
  • Because oversubscribed issues are subject to quantity rationing, uninformed investors may find that they are eventually allocated more overpriced issues.
  • In one of the many smugly tended, overpriced noodle shops we met Bob, a guide as sure-footed as a mountain goat.

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