Sentence examples for rather costly from inspiring English sources

Such cooling requires the use of liquefied helium, which is rather costly.

It was adding the letters in the first place that proved rather costly.

It seems as though he should have brandished something rather costly, if not actually ingenious.

The test vehicle, at more than $40,000, was rather costly.

Correcting erectile dysfunction, alas, is not so simple — and it can be rather costly.

If your company has too many, it automatically becomes a public company for regulatory purposes, subject to the rather costly and cumbersome burdens of Sarbanes-Oxley.

Japanese goods and services have become rather costlier in the past three quarters, although the trade-weighted value of the yen is still one-fifth lower than its peak in the third quarter of 1995.

There is a solution – albeit a rather extreme, costly one.

And doctors were encouraged to join the firm in "disease management", a buzzword for prevention rather than costly, traumatic cure.

While you are seemingly a bargain, I don't consider you an inexpensive bra but, rather, a costly sling shot.

The program (www.tapproject.org) allows patrons at participating restaurants to donate $1 to Unicef each time they order free tap water with their meals rather than costly bottled alternatives.