Sentence examples for bit exorbitant from inspiring English sources

The $3.5 million to the writer and star of the HBO comedy "Girls" for her first book seems a bit exorbitant, if not inappropriate, given that the publishing industry is said to be in trouble economically, and that it deprives probably a hundred apprentice writers from being subsidized.

Though I found the prices more than a bit shocking in Florence and Rome, this was truly exorbitant.

I guess his obscenely exorbitant salary made it a bit awkward for him to skewer the invited guests for being so flagrantly pre-French Revolution.

But they did trade him, and they did not win any championships, and now the Knicks are bringing back Mark Jackson -- importing a bit of New York moxie to set up their exorbitant surplus of shooting guards.

Lawyers get paid exorbitant fees, and though they may charge you a little bit more to work during this season they will get the deal done.

The dissolution and sale of British Rail, transforming it into a disjointed network charging exorbitant prices for an unimproved and still taxpayer-subsidised service, darkened the joke a bit much for popular tastes.

The thrill was exorbitant.

Prices are often exorbitant.

And the costs are exorbitant.

Ticket prices are exorbitant by Indian standards.

Many other developers have called the $850-per-square-foot price for 239 10th Avenue exorbitant. A. Everybody has a different way of looking at development, and I think that this is where my vision is a little bit different.