Sentence examples for expensive damage from inspiring English sources

Even a slight fender-bender can cause expensive damage.

"They were doing pretty expensive damage to New York City subway trains," Navarra recalled.

Car hire companies will have to share this one thanks to their habit of debiting customers' credit cards without warning days after a rental agreement ends to pay for mysterious and expensive damage.

Manufacturers of bricks and roof tiles, registered as major energy consumers, cannot shut down operations at short notice without causing expensive damage to their kilns – but when supplies start to run low, that's exactly what could happen.

It seems that driving away with the nozzle may not necessarily cause any serious or expensive damage in some cases, especially if the hose is detachable and can easily be snapped back on.

It became a roost for generations of pigeons whose droppings bore the seeds of plants and trees that took root in the detailed brickwork, causing fantastically expensive damage that Mr. Osborne was legally required to fix.

One publisher was told it could be hit with an expensive damages bill even if it correctly named a police suspect, in line with a proposal the lawyers said had been recommended by two high court judges.

Previous feasibility studies have shown it is expensive, damaging to globally significant habitat and not scalable - in other word, once you've done a barrage in the Severn, that's a lot of the resource used, whereas wind/solar/geothermal/tidal stream can be replicated in many places.

Personally, I'm not letting the threat of expensive damages hang too heavily over my head.

And plenty of expensive collateral damage.

The $49 device connects to the smart home platform the company set up for its smoke detectors, bringing alerts connected to water leaks, freezing, and changes in temperature and humidity, all of which can lead to expensive home damage – or, at the very least, pricing heating bills.