Sentence examples for cost dear from inspiring English sources

3 COST: Dear.

Excesses of arrogance and political short-sightedness cost dear.

If you answered "Amy Winehouse's stay on St Lucia", then you are correct - but at what cost, dear readers, we are about to find out.

"Fondanty," says M. 5 COST: Dear-ish, but not horrifying: £34 for 100ml. 2 CLEANLINESS: Leaves skin squeaky clean certainly, but also ethereally, unnervingly soft.

9. "It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued".

It cost us dear.

It cost him dear, physically.

The crisis may cost farmers dear.

The mistake has cost him dear.

Banking problems have cost taxpayers dear.

reckoning cost them dear at last.