Sentence examples for lavish sum from inspiring English sources

Models in a Calvin Klein show are placed under exclusive contracts that restrict them from appearing on any other runways; are flown to Milan; put up in hotels rather than the overcrowded crash pads that are standard model housing; and paid for their time and talents at a figure experts estimate at about $10,000, a particularly lavish sum when the industry standards have dwindled.

That's scarcely a lavish sum alongside the paychecks highlighted on page 109.

Ever vigilant, emperors spent lavish sums to build drainage systems to control floods.

Mr. Barnett has invested lavish sums to attract families willing to spend heavily on rent.

These lavish sums keep over 2m troops under arms, 750,000 of them conscripts.

British Parliamentarians have spent lavish sums in the last decade on replicas of Pugin designs, enraging taxpayers.

These are raising lavish sums for pro-Republican political advertising, but the ads do not disclose the source of their funding.

They lavish sums that to us appear extraordinary: the Saatchi children received £80 a week in pocket money; £120 for a night out.

But not all nearly new buildings are equal, even if they sold at similarly breakneck speeds and lavish sums during the boom.

Lebanon, for example, has cut fuel excise tax by over 1% of GDP.But far and away the most lavish sums are being spent or proposed by oil and gas exporters on infrastructure.

"There is a new thinking in the region and a re-evaluation of the need to spend lavish sums on weapons," said Iran's navy chief, Abbas Mohtaj, recently.