How to use "expensive" in a sentence

'He dresses so poorly but can afford to buy the most expensive doll in Montfermeil!'

And, because she was carrying an expensive doll and was no longer wearing rags, not many recognized Cosette.

It is a large room with oak tables, a dark marble counter and expensive leather sofas

Tall, arrogant, dressed in his expensive suit and with a watch that costs more than most people make in a year.

It looks expensive, made from black leather

Content with his job, his life, his expensive house and his two expensive cars.

that's so sweet of you!" Taste-pots were great, because they weren't expensive, but gave you the taste of something luxurious like double chocolate ice cream

"Yes." Sala loved painting, but the paints were expensive, so it was something she couldn't do very often.

They were expensive

You shouldn't have bought us such an expensive present - I mean, it's wonderful, but you don't have enough money

Every summer, Mrs Van Hopper stayed at the Hotel Cote d'Azur, the biggest and most expensive hotel in Monte Carlo

I wish I was wearing a lot of make-up and had expensive clothes.'

Hundreds of gamblers - pretty young women, sweet-faced grandmothers, men in jeans and decoratively stitched Western shirts, retirement-age men in expensive but tacky leisure outfits, a few guys in three-piece suits, salesmen, doctors, mechanics, secretaries, Americans from all of the Western states, junketeers from the East Coast, Japanese tourists, a few Arab men - sat at the semielliptical blackjack tables, pushing money and chips forward, sometimes taking back their winnings, eagerly grabbing the cards that were dealt from the five-deck shoes, each reacting in one of several predictable ways: Some players squealed with delight; some grumbled; others smiled ruefully and shook their heads; some teased the dealers, pleading half seriously for better cards; and still others were silent, polite, attentive, and businesslike, as though they thought they were engaged in some reasonable form of investment planning

The two of us haunted furniture stores from Vegas to Los Angeles to San Francisco, antique shops, galleries, everything from flea markets to the most expensive stores we could find

On Sunrise Mountain most of the big, expensive houses featured natural landscaping - which meant rocks, colored stones, and artfully arranged cacti instead of grass, shrubs, and trees - in acknowledgment that man's grip on this portion of the desert was new and perhaps tenuous

He was wearing Gucci loafers, an expensive suit, a handmade silk shirt, and a gold Rolex watch

"If I understand you, the Chinese could use Wuhan-400 to wipe out a city or a country, and then there wouldn't be any need for them to conduct a tricky and expensive decontamination before they moved in and took over the conquered territory."

This is obviously an expensive stretch of highway that must lead to something important and mysterious

The menu was expensive, but Mary seemed to have enjoyed undercooking and overcooking everything

Were they expensive?'

Eleanor Fairlie was an irritating woman who talked too much and wore expensive clothes