Sample sentences for EXORBITANT

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Definition

a lot more than is reasonable or typical — often said of price

The rent in that building is exorbitant.

exorbitant = a lot more than is reasonable or typical

Airline tickets, hotels, everything is exorbitant in that city on holiday weekends.

exorbitant = a lot more expensive than is reasonable or typical

Haymitch is our only hope, but nothing is forthcoming, either from lack of money — everything will cost an exorbitant amount — or because he's dissatisfied with our performance.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

exorbitant = a lot more than is reasonable

He established a fixed rate for servants' wages, which were becoming recklessly exorbitant.
Cervantes, Miguel -- Don Quixote
He is an exorbitant prince.
Hugo, Victor -- Notre-Dame de Paris
There was food aboard, albeit at exorbitant prices, and the three of them contrived to eat a meal on one of the seats forward.
Wells, H.G. -- The War Of The Worlds
He is an exorbitant prince.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Mia is the one who bought my guitar for some exorbitant sum, which means that Mia knew it was up for auction.
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
I doubt my dad would approve such an exorbitant expenditure of government funds"especially for what he'd be bound to consider a frivolous reason.
Meg Cabot -- The Princess Diaries
He established a fixed rate for servants' wages, which were becoming recklessly exorbitant.
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
The fact that Coros is well known and pays exorbitant bribes to facilitate his smuggling makes him an ideal candidate.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
Even to Papi fifty bucks wasn't exorbitant but he was reluctant to part with it.
Junot Diaz -- Drown
'The price,' said Milo, 'was outrageous — positively exorbitant!
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
Which seems to me, when I look about at my contemporary scene, no exorbitant gift from nature or circumstance to demand—'" "Will you wait?"
William Faulkner -- Absalom, Absalom!
I did not object to these conditions because they were exorbitant and inhuman: it was their extraordinary irrelevance that prostrated me.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
LADY P: And been exorbitant— 2 AVOC: You have not, lady.
Ben Jonson -- Volpone
She reasoned, perhaps, that he did not want to pay the exorbitant rents that everyone was charging now that the world's fair was under way.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
They charge exorbitant prices for their wares, and get whatever they ask," he said bitterly.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793
There was food aboard, albeit at exorbitant prices, and the three of them contrived to eat a meal on one of the seats forward.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
—which was hardly exorbitant by metropolitan standards in that deflated time, and even for Schrafft's profoundly ordinary fare.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

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