Sentence examples for extortionate amounts from inspiring English sources

We occasionally coughed up extortionate amounts for a shoddy train trip to London.

It also means they can charge extortionate amounts for life-saving medicines.

Those who charge such extortionate amounts should be found and challenged.

On my watch it would be illegal to charge extortionate amounts for tiny flats.

It is apparently an accepted practice in Indonesia to allow promoters to charge extortionate amounts for such events.

As well as powering a lamp, a slightly larger solar system can charge a mobile phone, for which users in poor countries often pay extortionate amounts.

"If the government wants people to apply to university, they shouldn't make us pay to apply, on top of the extortionate amount for tuition fees.

This is an extortionate amount of debt when the starting wage of a qualified social worker is around £27,000; therefore I would not have done the course.

"They even had the cheek to demand my expenses back despite my spending an extortionate amount to travel there each day".

A week ago, it had seemed that Arsenal would insist on an extortionate amount – £40m – to deter a United move, though a sum £5m above United's likely valuation may be enough.

We feel that it is all right for landlords to rent our properties for an extortionate amount of money because a) they can and b) this is their retirement fund.