Sentence examples for overpriced goods from inspiring English sources

Christian Bale plays the antisocial introvert Dr Michael Burry, who also happens to be an instinctive genius when it comes to spotting overpriced goods.

The Tweed ring then proceeded to milk the city through such devices as faked leases, padded bills, false vouchers, unnecessary repairs, and overpriced goods and services bought from suppliers controlled by the ring.

Bookies were forced to pay large sums for a range of overpriced goods and services, including children such as Fraser wiping down their blackboards at the end of each race.

Once inside the first location, the events of Star Wars slowly unfold in part around you as various stalls sell their overpriced goods and poor vendors are forced into character (one amusing moment saw a woman ask me in a monotone how many galaxies I'd travelled to get there. She had the conviction and passion of a George Lucas prequel).

Economists label this forlorn combination of overpriced goods and few takers as stagflation.

And while cute critters can teach us some lessons about saving for the lean times and not falling for overpriced goods, in the end we're all just animals struggling to get by.

The same cannot be said for those other foreigners, further away and therefore invisible, who benefit from, gasp, outsourcing and free trade with the U.S. Isn't it ironic that after decades of exporting unnecessary, overpriced goods to countries often strong-armed into buying them, Americans are so resentful about Indian and Brazilian workers wanting to make a buck themselves?

As such, they all create the temptation for a multinational to overprice the goods and services provided, thereby decreasing the taxable profit in the UK and shifting it somewhere else.

I can forgive the often-overpriced goods on sale, so bright and inviting are the wooden stands and well-wrapped shopkeepers.

The food is overpriced but surprisingly good, and the service lovely.

London: overpriced, overcrowded, no good olive shops, and not even original.