Sentence examples for expense of life from inspiring English sources
He did not anticipate the inordinate expense of life here.
Every mile and each lock in the Panama Canal came at the expense of life to yellow fever and malaria.
Were this purpose and this meaning worth the expense of life, the deaths of all those nineteen-year-old boys?
Art is often depicted as something that comes at the expense of life, as if creation requires locking oneself up in a sensory deprivation tank.
It is dispiriting that you implicitly endorse this administration's readiness to wage wars unjustified by national defense at the unconscionable expense of life and riches.
Coming to Gladiator as I did five years too late, I felt like Joaquin Phoenix's Commodus, all perfumed and fresh and maquillé, galloping up to his father Marcus Aurelius moments after the great greasy blackened brutes of Germania's army have been routed by the Romans at untellable expense of life and limb.
From that shower of managers only Wilkinson and Eriksson enjoyed genuine club success and even that was at the expense of life-affirming football.
Bed space issues are important but should not be considered at the expense of life-saving procedures.
Not only would I never sell my house, but now I also had two mortgages and was about to start paying an enormous Manhattan rent and all the other expenses of life there.
But for the 12.5 million customers who now have credit accounts at Salinas Banco Azteca, paying for the daily expenses of life is an entirely different game.
Though she had no income coming in while she waited, she still had her very high prescription drug and other medical costs, as well as her rent, heating, and all the other expenses of life.
