Sentence examples for if costly from inspiring English sources
Exports from China, even if costly, could avoid those barriers.
As a whole, Afghanistan remains a worthy — even if costly — fight.
The time-consuming new craft became a prized if costly luxury.
A simple (if costly) solution, not so much weaselly as wise, would be to have both.
If costly barrels start to chip away at demand, those companies are likely to be the first to suffer.
Three sweet jumbo shrimp draped over the rim of a martini glass also made a fine, if costly, starter.
Achieving beautiful bridges requires enlightened support by public officials to allow superior if costlier design.
For Chase, it would have been safer, if costlier, to buy one of the bulge-bracket firms outright.
Patients detest bribing doctors and buying medicines, yet cherish the freedom to choose better, if costlier, treatments.
The safer, if costlier, choice would be to build a coal plant and improve the energy efficiency of existing factories.
Initially, when the rules were proposed months earlier, manufacturers responded by introducing systems that ran on more environmentally friendly — if costlier — gases; they struck old models from catalogs.
