Definition of expensively in English:
expensively
adverbɪkˈspɛnsɪvliɪkˈspɛnsəvli
In a way that costs a lot of money.
expensively dressed guests
expensively produced adverts
Example sentencesExamples
- We all know expensively refurbished public spaces which fail to attract the public, as well as overcrowded marginal corners where crowds always congregate.
- Some live-aboard boats provide everything else but are self-catering, providing the opportunity to eat as cheaply or expensively as you like.
- A few nights later, Elise was dining alone at a trendy restaurant when an expensively dressed older gentleman sent over a bottle of the finest champagne.
- Mr. Doolittle enters, dressed expensively as if he was a bridegroom.
- They do not mind a bit exploiting the skills which were so painfully and expensively acquired, and are so desperately needed in their home countries.
- My flat was not expensively furnished, because I never had any money to furnish it any other way.
- She was expensively educated, rumoured to be of the landed gentry.
- A table of eight expensively suited businessmen was next to us, and we wondered if they would divide the bill on to eight credit cards.
- If the man and woman in the street can usually see a swift, practical, cheap solution to a problem, why does bureaucracy move so slowly and expensively?
- The country's expensively trained personnel are a prize catch for the NHS.
Definition of expensively in US English:
expensively
adverbɪkˈspɛnsəvliikˈspensəvlē
In a way that costs a lot of money.
expensively dressed guests
Example sentencesExamples
- Mr. Doolittle enters, dressed expensively as if he was a bridegroom.
- They do not mind a bit exploiting the skills which were so painfully and expensively acquired, and are so desperately needed in their home countries.
- A few nights later, Elise was dining alone at a trendy restaurant when an expensively dressed older gentleman sent over a bottle of the finest champagne.
- If the man and woman in the street can usually see a swift, practical, cheap solution to a problem, why does bureaucracy move so slowly and expensively?
- The country's expensively trained personnel are a prize catch for the NHS.
- A table of eight expensively suited businessmen was next to us, and we wondered if they would divide the bill on to eight credit cards.
- We all know expensively refurbished public spaces which fail to attract the public, as well as overcrowded marginal corners where crowds always congregate.
- She was expensively educated, rumoured to be of the landed gentry.
- My flat was not expensively furnished, because I never had any money to furnish it any other way.
- Some live-aboard boats provide everything else but are self-catering, providing the opportunity to eat as cheaply or expensively as you like.