Sentence examples for expensive import from inspiring English sources

A unique folding knife showing two dogs mating, another fabulously expensive import, was also deliberately buried.

The euro and the yen do not seem especially attractive — China's most expensive import is oil, and oil is still priced in dollars.

He has outshone the other expensive import to La Liga this season, Neymar, who looked like a jumped-up youth-team player in the Copa del Rey final.

Instead of a change in the exchange rate sloshing straight through into more expensive import prices, prices and wages are now much more closely tied to inflation targets than to exchange-rate movements.

But the events of last winter cast doubt on that idea: expensive import pipelines and liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals stayed obstinately underused even as temperatures plunged and gas prices soared.

And while a weak dollar usually makes imports expensive, import prices have so far climbed less than other currencies' values because foreign producers have kept prices low to preserve market share in the United States.

They were expensive imports, but popular among the Puritans, who despised idleness.

SABMiller produces beer for Uganda using cheap local ingredients rather than expensive imported malt.

It also encourages domestic consumers to switch from expensive imports to domestic goods.

A weaker pound will translate into more expensive imports and therefore higher inflation.

The expensive imports of CO2-intensive fossil fuels will end, too.