Sentence examples for costly of from inspiring English sources

The fixes are desperately costly of labour and resources.

Resentments in British Kaffraria, however, resulted in the eighth and most costly of the wars.

Thus, the eighth war (1850 53) was the most drawn-out and costly of all.

Hurricane Charley was the most costly of the four, with about $7.5 billion in damages.

Internal insulation failures are invariably the most serious and costly of transformer problems.

She also advised me to take evening primrose oil, which is costly, of dubious efficacy and not available on prescription.

(In this instance to stay quiet might be the least costly of stances, and perhaps the least confusing, too).

The medium is 20 hand-painted illuminated manuscripts, which were in their time among the most costly of gifts.

The more costly of the two, An Allegory, was subsequently revealed to be a contemporary imitation of Botticelli's work.

Giving up her name was surely the most costly of the changes that Hillary made; the others were more superficial.

I want to be absolutely clear that for those living in poverty, inaction on our part now will ultimately be the most costly of all courses of action.