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1. Is eating healthy more costly?
2. He made many costly purchases.
3. Parking fines are very costly.
4. That was a costly mistake.
5. It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict.
6. The broccoli is either costly or of poor quality.
7. With his income, he cannot afford the costly dinners.
8. Salt was a rare and costly commodity in ancient times.
9. Why did you get such a costly dictionary?
10. This computer will prove costly in the long run.
11. It had been very costly in lives, money, and supplies.
12. The Japanese distribution system, characterized by layers of wholesale, is complex and costly.
13. In this democratic age of ours men clamour for what is popularly considered the best, regardless of their feelings. They want the costly, not the refined; the fashionable, not the beautiful.
14. The frantic shouts and screams of the excited household and guests made the confusion indescribable when it was found that scarcely anything of the costly building could be saved.
15. The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.