Sentence examples for extortionate spending from inspiring English sources

More detail on the royal finances can be found on Republic's website, but the key point raised by the shabby propaganda and extortionate spending is the urgent need for real reform to the way the monarchy is funded.

Last week I spent extortionate amounts of money on makeup and clothes, and I'm still sat here with a Bronte novel!

Luckily most of us realised this and never spent extortionate amounts of money on stuffed owls.

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

"When the arguments are heard in the open, it soon becomes clear that spending an extortionate £183bn on Trident is bad for our security, bad for jobs creation, and bad for society as a whole when it's draining resources from struggling public services".

The RMT general secretary, Mick Cash, said: "This report throws up yet more evidence that two decades of privatisation, fragmentation and underinvestment in Britain's railways have left passengers angry and frustrated as they see the hard cash they spend on extortionate fares drained away in profits to the train operating companies.

It's not the definitive death of a subject; it just means you have to be prepared to spend an extortionate amount of money to study it at uni. — Hannah Ewens.

There's lots right – the accrual of character detail, the child's terror of adult recrimination, the sheer randomness of it – about the routine in which Davies incurs dad's wrath by spending a then-extortionate 85p on a tennis ball.

"The amount of money we were spending on advertising was extortionate," she said.

They are people - mainly women - who sought the psychological benefits of spending, only to find themselves paying extortionate amounts to credit card companies.

"I couldn't take a gap year in 2011 because of the extortionate fees coming in the next year, so I spent my summer travelling and went to India.