Sentence examples for expensive quotation from inspiring English sources

The phrase "expensive quotation" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when referring to a quote or estimate that is high in cost. Example: "The contractor provided an expensive quotation for the renovation project, which exceeded our budget."

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We'd already had one, very expensive, quotation from the company that couldn't offer a demo.

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Karl Marx has thirteen quotations (plus eight for which he shares credit with Friedrich Engels, who, interestingly, never felt it necessary to say "Je ne suis pas engeliste") in the compendious, enjoyable, and expensive "Yale Book of Quotations" (Yale; $50), edited by Fred Shapiro.

Otherwise, use a parenthetical with both the name and the page number at the end of the sentence or quotation: Some argue that college has become too expensive (Spiers 48).

The paper's Web site ran what it called the 20 most ridiculous quotations, including, "He smells of freshly laundered linen and some expensive body wash".

(Possibly apocryphal quotation).

I knew the quotation.

Springsteen in quotation marks?

The full quotation?

(See quotation, Tench, 1789).

Preceded by quotation from N.Y.

More quotation, more nostalgia.

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