Pans are leased by the year, the privilege costingabout forty taels each.
Don Marcelo began to complain of the cramped space in an apartment costing twenty-eight thousand francs a year--in reality large enough for a family four times the size of his.
Field-guns fire away ammunition costing from ten to twenty dollars a shot, at the rate of from twenty to forty shots a minute.
Herbert, whose heart had been melting like snow under a tropic sun, now became sensible that he was committing a rudeness; which, so far from being natural to him, was costing him a struggle to counterfeit.
Each of these had for example every year a "doubled milled cloth colored great coat" costing 11$.
Bottled oil made from seeds and roots for cooking purposes, costing $5 per pound.
In reality it is a serious and difficult undertaking, costing suffering, excitement, and tears.
An officer in charge of an Indian agency made a requisition in the autumn for a stove costing seven dollars, certifying at the same time that it was needed to keep the infirmary warm during the winter, because the old stove was worn out.
The somewhat elaborate and costly investigations of Government business methods since made have served merely to confirm the findings of the Committee on Departmental Methods, which were achieved without costing the Government a dollar.
In effect, these cranes are alike, but a number of patterns may be found, any one costing from a shilling to half a crown.
There are loaves of 24 dirhams, costing 1/2 piastre.
It is generally the growth of the country called Hijazi or Kazimiyah; a green weed, very strong, with a foul smell, and costing about one piastre per pound.
Exclusive of mustering-out payments and terminal leave pay, the program for veterans of all wars is costing over seven billion dollars a year--one-fifth of our total federal budget.
We are wasting literally millions of working hours costing billions of taxpayers' and consumers' dollars because of bureaucratic redtape.
With interest charges alone now costing taxpayers about 9 1/2 billions, it is clear that this debt growth must stop.
So I must say to you that our pressure must be sustained--and will be sustained--until he realizes that the war he started is costing him more than he can ever gain.
It has three times the strength of Cocoa mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, and is therefore far more economical, costing less than one cent a cup.
For out of doors white linen tape may be had, with wooden staples and pins for fastening to the ground, costing from $3.
The top of a sweetstuff box-costing about a halfpenny--will do well enough.
For these I selected a couple of small electric bells, costing 2s.
Separated by a narrow street is a similar edifice in which second and third class baths are given, costing respectively 1½ frs.
Probably the great dandy was merely quizzing his interlocutor, though such an act of extravagance would have been a pull on even the longest purse in those days, 'your bottle of Champagne in the year 1814 costing you a guinea.
Sportsmen are so numerous in every little village of the Marne, the shooting license only costing five-and-twenty francs, that feathered game has become very rare.
They form no unimportant item in the Champagne manufacturer's budget, costing upwards of twopence each, and are delivered in huge sacks resembling hop-pockets.
The baths are now used for the benefit of the public, costing only six cents.
The open swimming baths are used for horses and dogs, the former costing three cents, the latter gratis, providing the canine accompanies the horse.
The parishoners were very proud of their church when it was finished and they gave the great architect a hogshead of wine costing L4 2s.
This has the advantage of costingonly a few shillings, and is readily obtainable from any ironmonger.
The smallest and cheapest is the Baldwin, costing from 30s.
No doubt, as the desire for ice increases, smaller blocks, costing perhaps 2d.
Their diet is coarse and simple, their drink, tea and small-beer; costing not above 1s.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "costing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
