The phrase "cost everything" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means that something had a very high cost or caused one to lose everything they had. Example: The war devastated the country and cost everything for its citizens - their homes, their livelihoods, and even their loved ones.
When I decided to home-school, I took it upon myself to provide, or to procure at my own cost, everything my children needed for their education.
They provide at a low cost everything from remedial education to courses that prepare students for four-year degrees, while keeping in close touch with the training needs of local employers.
Their aim is to supply, at zero cost, everything necessary to build the device from scratch, including hardware specifications, source code, assembly instructions, suggested parts—and even recommendations on where to buy them and how much to pay.
Bedell said when they first installed solar panels for utilities around 2007, the all-in cost – everything that goes into creating a panel – was between $7 to $8 a watt.
Frank seems never to have been a child; his high-minded father, EJ Thompson, writer and Oxford academic, raised his son on the belief that men should be tested by war, that it should cost "everything a man has, to face the breaking of his body and mind".
He said: "I knew it was going to cost everything that we had and more and so I'd have to generate funding.
"We're seeing higher rents, faster lease-ups, lower construction costs — everything you want to see.
We've fully costed everything... you simply couldn't base everything on results.
"Every sub-group had its own producer, who costed everything out in terms of development time.
For example, under functional costing there is no navy budget that costs everything spent by the navy.
There's heat, air conditioning, rent, exhibition costs, everything, yet so far, we've made it work.
