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Example sentences for "more expensive"

  • If American labor is more expensive, it is also more efficient than labor is elsewhere.

  • By the hypothesis, no more than a hundred quarters can be produced in the district, unless by either bringing worse land into cultivation, or altering the system of culture to a more expensive one.

  • Two sizes of flat colanders with pin head holes are to be found at the 5 and 10 cent stores, which are just as useful and durable as more expensive ones.

  • Cream judiciously used is no more expensive from a financial stand point than butter, and from a health standpoint it is cheaper.

  • A little cream with the water in which the vegetable was cooked often gives a finer flavored soup than milk and is no more expensive.

  • Live cattle are, perhaps, the only commodity of which the transportation is more expensive by sea than by land.

  • Those of the master shoemaker are a little, though but a very little, more expensive.

  • Great Britain is most burdensome on her finances, though it has been dwelt upon with particular emphasis, nor whether an army be more expensive in every case, than a navy.

  • And because the cheaper mode of production must always displace the mode which is more expensive: as Prof.

  • We have opened our own trenches entirely by hand labor, finding laborers more convenient than oxen or horses, and no more expensive.

  • The objections to this contrivance are, that it is temporary; that it occupies too much room; and that it is more expensive than a well of cast iron or stone-ware of proper size.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "more expensive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always something; more able; more abundant; more active; more ancient; more brilliant; more cards; more closely; more complex; more danger; more detail; more easily; more efficient; more equal; more especially; more inclined; more intense; more often; more parts; more profitable; more rapid; more sensible; more suitable; more true; more usually; more years