Sentence examples for alarmingly expensive from inspiring English sources

The occasion was a dinner featuring a rare tasting of Louis XIII, an alarmingly expensive cognac (base price 1,500 euros a bottle, or $2,000, oligarchs take note) aged for decades or -- in the case of the rarest vintage -- for more than a century.

It is also alarmingly expensive: Rates range from 340 euros for a classic room (a perfectly adequate though dimly lighted room with two twin beds overlooking the front drive with a bathroom as big as the room itself, like all the Son Net bathrooms) to 1,050 euros for the royal suites, which are entire apartments with their own gardens.

Chili Lime Chicken Burgers You like to go to costume shops and buy kooky, alarmingly expensive costumes and call out "impromptu dress-up party!" as you walk into random bars just to change things up.

Petty crime is rising alarmingly, so watches, expensive jewellery and designer clothing will have to be left behind in the hotel.

Poland and Romania, in particular, have proved alarmingly ready to make expensive spending pledges for political reasons.A new World Bank study of public spending (see chart below) highlights the bad bargain that the region's taxpayers are getting.

Mr Wilder faces a long list of problems: an escalating homicide rate attributed to the drug trade; an expensive public-school system virtually abandoned by whites; alarmingly high rates for sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy; and a rising number of poor, black households without health insurance.

A more severe problem looms in the long run: The transportation infrastructure in the United States is aging, and the Department of Transportation has warned that unless urgent and expensive fixes are made, roads, waterways, airports and other systems will become alarmingly clogged by the 2040s.

Other characters regress alarmingly.

Sounds alarmingly familiar, eh?

Her money dwindled alarmingly.

Inequality is alarmingly high.