Sentence examples for desperately expensive from inspiring English sources

With oil now over $100 a barrel, they are desperately expensive.

Transport is the thorn in every city council's side - desperately expensive, dirty, noisy and terrible for the climate.

Desperately expensive now, Shelby Cobras didn't set sales records when new; only 998 were built in 1962-67, in two basic versions.

Infrastructure improvements are punishingly expensive and desperately needed in a place where, for instance, people travel by boat or plane because there are no roads connecting towns.

It's impossible for any library to cover every single research area possible in every discipline possible, so getting my hands on the materials I desperately need is an expensive business.

That something, says Robert Service, our leading historian of the Soviet Union, was the coming to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, a young reformer dedicated to simultaneously rescuing Russian communism from terminal decay and ending the ruinously expensive and desperately dangerous arms race with America.

At least my rule guarantees titillation in its sadness, whereas an expensive night desperately chasing an idea of a good time is just flat depressing.

Most health care spending is racked up by a small percentage of individuals whose bills are so high they are no longer subject to cost sharing; they will hardly be deterred from expensive care they desperately need.

When the Chicago Cubs were asking for several prospects for Sammy Sosa last month while the Yankees' principal owner, George Steinbrenner, pushed for a big trade, club executives desperately searched for a less expensive alternative that nonetheless could have some impact on the team.

Madonna wants us to see these two as spiritual twins, in that they are both dazzled by expensive trinkets and searching desperately for love.

At the moment, one can't help but think those in charge are simply spinning their wheels, desperately hoping one of their massively expensive ideas gains traction.