exorbitance

Example Sentences

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The exorbitance of Park Place, the alien sound of Kamchatka and Irkutsk — these were backward-feeling games that urged ravenous competition.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023

“Do you need to have all this excess and exorbitance spent on making a bathroom experience fun and exciting?”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2022

And sadness, like exorbitance, depends entirely upon what it’s being compared to.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 11, 2019

The small scale helps: no chance of the various "treat stops" and catering points being overwhelmed, although with prices such as a ludicrous £2.70 for an ice lolly, a self-policing exorbitance is also in play.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2012

Only when love here claims to be above the world—"All for Love, and the World well Lost"—we feel that its exorbitance must wreck it here and now, however it may shine hereafter.

From Fort Amity by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir