Sentence examples for pricy from inspiring English sources

The word "pricy" is correct in written English
You can use it to describe something that is expensive or costs more than expected. For example: "The new car I bought was surprisingly pricy."

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Others are buying fuel from a flourishing, though pricy, black market.Some government officials swore that 2012 would be the last for fuel shortages, but no one is holding their breath.

Although the device supports USB powered solar chargers, at 2,000 rupees apiece, they are too pricy.

The goal is to demonstrate a working solar-fuel generator that uses no biological components and no pricy catalysts (like platinum), yet can produce hydrocarbon fuel from the sun ten times more efficiently than maize (corn), sugar cane, switch grass or any other fast-growing crop.

Or we could match the nice wall and slats on the right, but that seems a bit copy-cattish (and insulting to the people on the left, for not aping their decision); not to mention pricy, given the cost of reclaimed London brick.

The pricy property is just 9ft wide and roughly one twelvth the size of the average new house in England.

Olivia von Halle is to pyjamas what Rolex is to watches – premium, on the pricy side, but above all, luxurious.

I knew it existed; I'd been to the Shard when it opened two years ago, to check out Oblix on the 32nd floor, the new restaurant from German maestro Rainer Becker (co-founder of Zuma), and I'd found the food weep-makingly pricy.

There were fears of price boom in the aftermath of the election Labour won, caused by investors avoiding the tax by moving out of pricy properties in the most expensive parts of central London to residential areas such as Battersea and Fulham.

"Binoculars," he grins, brandishing his own rather pricy pair, "are better than cowboys".

Only when a 46 percent discount was applied to a pricy Hepatitis C treatment, Harvoni, did it become a good health care value — at about $40,000 per year.

If you really want to stay in halls, most cities have some form of private halls, but they're often a bit pricy.

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