Sentence examples for tricky and expensive from inspiring English sources

Making wines without additives is tricky and expensive.

(The Independent) Getting a home set up for electric vehicle charging can be tricky and expensive.

Pushing hundreds of yards farther down, to a depth of nearly a mile, to get at the new ore will be especially tricky and expensive.

But that would have been a bit tricky (and expensive!) Do you prefer to work in silence or with things going on around you? Bit of both actually.

Coal plants will either have to switch over to cleaner burning natural gas, sequester the CO2 from their stacks, a tricky and expensive operation, or close up shop.

The "unconventional"—tricky and expensive, in the language of the oil industry—has become conventional.The availability of abundant reserves in North America contrasts with the narrowing of Western firms' oil opportunities elsewhere in recent years.

There's none of that tricky, and very expensive, messing around with oak barrels and long-aging that goes into making whisky or cognac you simply ferment a mash of wheat, rye or potatoes, run the result through a still, filter it to remove the last vestiges of the oils and congeners that impart flavor, and stick it in the bottle.

This programs is especially useful for Mac computers, as configuring native remote desktop connections is very tricky and potentially expensive.

And if GTL proves a success, Mr Davies is keen to promote the trickier and more expensive process of converting coal to liquid fuel.

Lex, Financial Times 10 September 2007 While the consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland is in pole position to win the bid battle for Dutch bank ABN Amro, raising the capital is looking trickier – and more expensive – by the day.

For her this means "adding value" through clever (and expensive) marketing, tricky packaging and the employment of harmful salt and sugar.