exorbitantly

Example Sentences

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By 2014, urgent care clinics and hospitals were plentiful enough in large cities like St. Petersburg and Moscow, but many were exorbitantly expensive, even for young Americans like me.

From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025

That shows the sector isn’t exorbitantly expensive—unlike some S&P 500 stocks—and that higher-than-expected profits can still drive the stocks higher.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

That doesn’t mean it’s meaningless, and when you’re paying for exorbitantly expensive medical procedures, you’ll take any discount you can get.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025

Our only planned activity is an hour of swim team three mornings a week that is run by a local college’s swim program and still feels exorbitantly expensive.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2025

But to paraphrase Keynes: in the long run, we’ll all be broke, at least those of us who work for low wages and live in exorbitantly overpriced motels.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich