Sentence examples for staggering prices from inspiring English sources

Sadly, that was the only way many could get hold of products, but the staggering prices have become unsustainable.

Since 2007, when his "White Canoe" sold at Sotheby's for £5.7m ($11.2m), then a record for a living European artist, his works have consistently sold for staggering prices.

While contemporary art often attracts staggering prices at auction, exquisite portraits by well-known painters will usually go for a fraction of those prices.

What's more, many make so little wine and charge such staggering prices for it that none is left for casual tasting.

And like those other spirits, it began to command staggering prices in the 1990's: $100 -- or more -- for an artfully made bottle.

The most valued were the sweet, exotic aromas of dried spices, which traveled thousands of miles from inscrutable Asian lands and commanded often staggering prices — in Roman times, a pound of cinnamon oil cost a centurion's salary six times over.

But all come with staggering price tags.

The staggering price put a hold on that idea.

The staggering price tag raises questions: "Why did Verizon wait so long to buy the rest of the wireless company?

But those were developed for military fighter jets and hospital imaging departments, and they carry staggering price tags.

When it was under construction, it marketed its penthouses for as much as $60,000 a month, a staggering price for the area.