Sample Sentences for
exorbitant
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    Always, the exorbitant demands rode upon military ventures.†  (source)
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    + The salary was so attractive because I didn't have to pay exorbitant malpractice insurance.†  (source)
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    Even to Papi fifty bucks wasn't exorbitant but he was reluctant to part with it.†  (source)
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    To them, payday lenders were predatory sharks, charging high interest rates on loans and exorbitant fees for cashed checks.†  (source)
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    The office suited him; it contained nothing but the few pieces of furniture he needed, all of them harshly simplified down to their essential purpose, all of them exorbitantly expensive in the quality of materials and the skill of design.†  (source)
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    The women, indeed, usually entered the church at once, and the farmers' wives talked in an undertone to each other, over the tall pews, about their illnesses and the total failure of doctor's stuff, recommending dandelion-tea, and other home-made specifics, as far preferable—about the servants, and their growing exorbitance as to wages, whereas the quality of their services declined from year to year, and there was no girl nowadays to be trusted any further than you could see her—about the bad price Mr. Dingall, the Treddleston grocer, was giving for butter, and the reasonable doubts that might be held as to his solvency, notwithstanding that Mrs. Dingall was a sensible woman, and they were†  (source)
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    Saeed bought a simple fishing rod, available for a less exorbitant price because its reel was broken and the line had to be spooled out and pulled back in by hand.†  (source)
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    The inflatable Godzilla was gone (the daily rental for something like that must have been exorbitant), but the neon sign still blazed: UTGARD LANES.†  (source)
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    I knew it was likely that he was paid an exorbitant amount of money for his story and that he was probably worrying about a mountain of debt for his education.†  (source)
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    They had to pay exorbitant sums in key money and look for a new roof over their heads in the last weeks of October.†  (source)
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    Eugene's trip to Tilghman Brothers, the exorbitant fee they had charged for the expedited service (exactly double their regular fee), Junior's two separate trips to apply the varnish and the final trip he would make Friday morning to screw the eyebolts back in and reattach the ropes on their figure eights and hang the swing from the ceiling: she would have no idea of any of that.†  (source)
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    She'd met him now twice and knew him to be a charming and canny man who made his rather exorbitant living with transportation.†  (source)
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    Will Benteen sat on the front steps at Scarlett's feet in the pleasant sunshine of the early autumn afternoon and his flat voice went on and on languidly about the exorbitant costs of ginning the cotton at the new gin near Fayetteville.†  (source)
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