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Usage examples of pricy.

After a particularly smart stock trade Strega had treated himself to a pricy piece of modern sculpture.

He was tired, cranky, so dirty he itched and hungry enough to eat those pricy kidskin boots she was wearing-in other words, he was spoiling for a good fight.

I stood up and returned the thermosuit to its bin and pulled down a plain black catsuit and mood-bead veil, small but pricy, because of the EEG circuitry.

Like pricy waterfront properties everywhere, parking spaces in that neighborhood were at a premium.

Mick shot the cuffs of his silk shirt, dusted imaginary lint from the two-thousand-dollar jacket he wore, consulted his outrageously pricy Rolex, and climbed to his feet.

If she went up to the tourist levels, she could walk into an upscale restaurant, sit down to a pricy dinner of Pasta Alfredo, with fresh vegetables from these tubes, and aged Parmigiana, made from soy beans that grew here somewhere.

He headed straight for one of two black leather recliners in the room, the pricy kind from Sharper Image, tricked out with a massage unit.

Neither did his pricy well-tailored jacket disguise the width of his shoulders.

His own shoes were a pricy pair of snake-skin slippers over silk stockings.