Sentence examples for extortionately from inspiring English sources

According to the agency, which has spent a year investigating the 50 largest payday lending companies, too many firms are profiting from lending irresponsibly, at extortionately high interest rates, to people who struggle to repay the money.

Usually it will go to a village bigwig, perhaps with a little help from local officials.The main winners, though, are the arhtiyas, the commission agents who act as middlemen between farmers and wholesale buyers and at the same time moonlight, sometimes extortionately, as moneylenders.

Another favourite trick has been to cap the amount of data that can be downloaded, or to charge extortionately by the megabyte.Yet the measures to suffocate internet television being taken by the cable companies may already be too late.

A taxi will be extortionately expensive.

Apple refused to pay Samsung's licence fees, arguing that they were extortionately priced.

Then spend more of it on extortionately priced designer clothes.

Those two chances are slim and none, and slim was seen leaving town last night in an extortionately overpriced black London cab.

In actual fact, her appearance at Gaultier's show has roots in the grandest tradition of hand-crafted, extortionately expensive clothing.

Darren Johnson, Green Party London assembly member, added: "By backing this proposal, Boris Johnson is condemning this part of London into [being] a playground for the super-rich with mostly extortionately priced homes that will not help the vast majority of ordinary people".

Artistic endeavours are all well and good, but it won't pay those extortionately high Manhattan rents.

Performance art is always available, varies from extortionately expensive to amateur free events, and is enjoyed by the complete range of audiences.