Costly in a sentence as an adjective

It's very costly for the company, and it had Wall Street in a frenzy when it first launched.

Second, it's less costly because people caught with small amounts are not caught up in the justice system for years, and only pay a small fine.

It takes the bees days to reestablish, and is a costly expense of energy they need for foraging, building, and preparing for winter.

Online rental advertising systems to cut out costly newspapers.

Coal is guaranteed to have costly negative health and environmental impacts on surrounding areas, while nuclear merely has the risk.

Zeroing an SSD is a costly behavior that, if not detected by the firmware, will harm the longevity of the SSD by dirtying its internal pages and its page cache.

To prevent this, you would need to be able to detect when a node is faulty/malicious which would require implementing a costly Byzantine Consensus Protocol [1].

The key to the low rates rests on Zidisha’s avoidance of costly staff and operations on the ground, and its ability to leverage low-cost funds from socially-motivated lenders.

Since I think that is arrogant folly, and destined to end in costly failure regardless, better to have some speculator come along and put a stop to it before it can drag on and result in even more losses to the public.

Litigation is frustrating beyond belief and one has to be almost insane to step gratuitously into it: it is costly, slow, unpredictable, and it is guaranteed only of one thing, to rob you of your peace of mind as you endure the process.

Big public policy proposals are not easy to discuss, but the big public policy proposal of a guaranteed basic income for all is a response to existing policy of supposedly targeted social welfare programs that are just about equally expensive, but more costly to administer.

We have a huge public debt, dangerously neglected infrastructure, a greatly overextended system of criminal punishment, a seeming inability to come to grips with grave environmental problems such as global warming, a very costly but inadequate educational system, unsound immigration policies, an embarrassing obesity epidemic, an excessively costly health care system, a possible rise in structural unemployment, fiscal crises in state and local governments, a screwed-up tax system, a dysfunctional patent system, and growing economic inequality that may soon create serious social tensions.

Costly definitions

adjective

entailing great loss or sacrifice; "a dearly-won victory"

See also: dearly-won

adjective

having a high price; "costly jewelry"; "high-priced merchandise"; "much too dear for my pocketbook"; "a pricey restaurant"

See also: high-priced pricey pricy