Sentence examples for sort of expensive from inspiring English sources

"That sort of expensive detailing is pure nonsense," he told me.

Udon noodles with mushrooms and asparagus were the best part of the roasted lobster dish, which, at $29, makes them sort of expensive for noodles.

The sort of (expensive and time-consuming) journalism Nick Davies does is threatened in many news organisations by the quite understandable need to cut costs.

That outcome could lead to the same sort of expensive and unpredictable cascade of debt obligations throughout the financial system that endangered the banking system during the American subprime real estate collapse a few years ago.

He probably doesn't need the sort of expensive and highly visible protection afforded to Tony Blair in his London house, but that is for the police and not us or Mr Griffin to assess.

Under a popular, expanding federal program called Trade Adjustment Assistance, workers who are judged to have lost their jobs because of foreign-trade policy are eligible for the sort of expensive, generously conceived assistance that has become a rarity since Great Society strategies fell out of fashion.

Sometimes they must be custom-built.The planning system then adds all sorts of expensive complexities.

The government agreed to buy them all sorts of expensive equipment that simulated nuclear weapons tests.

By the time Mr. Vick had to lay his affairs bare before the bankruptcy judge, he was up to his ears in all sorts of expensive investments.

Entrepreneurs are creating apps and attachments that turn smartphones into measuring devices, replacing all sorts of expensive industrial and medical instruments with something far cheaper.

There is a German army shop here that's selling all sorts of expensive penknives, muscle-builders' magazines and combat clothing.