Sentence examples for inordinate sum from inspiring English sources

HP has learned that lesson all too well — after having spent an inordinate sum of money to throw their hat into the smartphone and tablet ring with webOS, they pulled the plug in what seems like record time.

(Ironically, on the last day of production of Lady, he paid me an inordinate sum of money for the right to claim an executive producer credit on the picture, which for various reasons he richly deserved).

Many have personal trainers or pay inordinate sums to go to "Shangri-spa".

The patient pays inordinate sums for basic provisions, such as coffee and shelter.

PHYSICISTS are often accused by the public and other scientists of spending inordinate sums on fancy kit that does little apart from merely satisfying human curiosity.

Our fascination with human beings who earn inordinate sums and seem to live in a privileged netherworld of their own is often tinged with resentment.

I will be 30 this year, and am wondering about the wisdom of spending inordinate sums on clothes that are quickly ushered to consignment boutiques.

Consult the list of symptoms below to see if you may suffer from this terrible affliction: Dissociative Cost Phenomenon The patient pays inordinate sums for basic provisions, such as coffee and shelter.

Personhood measures are alarming (and almost certainly unconstitutional), but so far their main threat has been to drain money from pro-choice groups, which have had to spend inordinate sums to defeat them.

For example, in South Africa, where sex work has been illegal since the former apartheid regime criminalized it in 1957, police officers often fine sex workers inordinate sums of money and pocket the cash, resulting in a pattern of economic extortion of sex workers by state agents.

Even today it would take an inordinate eBay sum to make me part with my Tindersticks vinyl.