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Example sentences for "expensively"

Lexicographically close words:
expends; expense; expenses; expensis; expensive; expensiveness; experience; experienced; experiences; experiencing
  1. He was a young man, expensively and fashionably dressed, whose mien was considerably prepossessing, and whose countenance bespoke some portion of discernment.

  2. The parlour was spacious and expensively furnished, but an air of negligence and disorder was everywhere visible.

  3. The Sea Foam had a roomy after-cabin handsomely but not expensively furnished, on either side of which were four bunks, separated from the saloon by heavy draperies.

  4. None of the property here is expensively built up; most of it is exceedingly poor and shabby.

  5. Highland and Schenley, over in Pittsburgh's East End, are elaborately and expensively "improved.

  6. They had been, but perhaps of necessity, materialists, valuers only of the expensively concrete; yes, the majority of such adventures had been sordid.

  7. His partner, flushing through her dark skin, was expensively habited: her fingers and throat glittered coldly with diamonds and her hat was swept with long dipping plumes.

  8. But do the women dress more expensively than they need to do?

  9. Do you find that the women dress more expensively here than they do in other places?

  10. It makes a market for expensively bred and trained animals, and it's a sort of fancy advertising; but I don't care for a human application of the same idea.

  11. They crowded round him, this knot of expensively dressed people, hard-faced and harsh-spoken, with a warmth and contrition which moved the old man inexpressibly.

  12. She is a favourite burlesque actress, and she lives very expensively in those gorgeous new flats--Bloomsbury Court.

  13. In the same seat where Schuabe sat was a woman, dark, handsome, expensively dressed.

  14. He was an enormously big man, broad and tall, dressed expensively and with care.

  15. That such a scene might stir the less expensively dressed to emulate the more expensively dressed could scarcely be laid at the door of anything save the false ambition of the minds of those so affected.

  16. No evil could come out of the contemplation of an expensively decorated chamber.

  17. For the rest, she had been expensively educated, was profoundly ignorant in two languages, with a trained misunderstanding of music and painting, and a natural and faultless taste in dress.

  18. But she no longer received a penny from him, and as she had dressed expensively during the gay time of her liaison with M.

  19. Roux, and even more expensively during her troublous times when she was upholding her dignity by constantly visiting her entire circle, she was now beginning to be dunned by her milliner and dressmaker, and Messrs.

  20. One had yellow frilly hair and one had brown bobbed hair, and both were quaintly, immaculately, expensively kissable.

  21. A huge palace is consequently run up, without the slightest idea of consulting the rules of symmetry or proportion, and plainly though expensively finished.

  22. Some of the presents were valuable and others were expensively useless, and the opinion expressed in Melbury Park was that the doctor couldn't possibly find room for them all in his house and would have to take a bigger one.

  23. The vocalist, who was a very handsome and an expensively but not showily dressed young woman, sang as before quite unconcernedly, and apparently oblivious of having done anything out of the common.

  24. If I accustomed you to living expensively it would be harder for you to accommodate yourself to your means.

  25. He was expensively dressed and looked like one who made a business of spending money.

  26. He explained expensively that he had seen her act and thought her ideal for the part.

  27. Perhaps you can recall them--those men and women of the best and bluest blood in Britain, strenuously spending their days in doing nothing as expensively as ever it could be done.

  28. All the feet were expensively shod except his own.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expensively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.