What is "expensively"

Usage examples of "expensively".

In a room of a hundred expensively dressed San Antonians, this guy has four large cats, unrestrained, on a stage not twenty feet from the audience.

The third Committeeman, seeing how expensively his friends had learned their lessons, turned and ran for help.

The strawberry fields, Japanese produce farms, and stands of fir, cedar, and madrona trees have shrunk and expensively appointed houses have sprung up.

He approached a handsome young man dressed in expensively tailored playclothes, who was holding forth in the middle of a group of adoring listeners sipping pink cocktails.

But when it comes to fate, as the Athenians like to remind us in those tragedies that they are forever mounting so expensively at the theater, one cannot win.

The houses here were terraced, tall elegant residences built during the Regency, skilfully modernised and expensively maintained.

Seated as he was on that night, poring over some sheets of vellum by the dimming-flaring light of a lamp, he looked the epitome of a noble-born great captain, a wealthy war-leader of armies of this world's late seventeenth centuryclothed well and expensively, a belt of silver plates set with semiprecious stones cinching his waist and a bejeweled dagger depending from it.

The daughters of such houses were expensively dowried pawns, though often vital ones, married off to con­solidate alliances, expand holdings, lay claim or siege to even higher rank for the family.

She sighed, closed the door and leaned against it, and I had to admit that any door, even the expensively panelled ones on the campari, looked twice the door with susan beresford draped against it.

The aluminum for the wires and the batacitor had been laboriously and expensively made from aluminum silicate derived from the clay under the grass along the base of the mountains.

From his expensively coiffed hair to his Pierre Cardin shoes to the tailored Italian suit in between, he portrayed an image of anal retentiveness difficult to equal.

Expensively attired, his basic dress, was the tailored blue uniform of a vice admiral.

Cordelia slapped an expensively embossed business card down on the counter.

But both were likewise broke - forever broke, building flamboyant mansions in Cayuga Heights, buying new cars every six months, dressing expensively.

At Startop’s suggestion, we put ourselves down for election into a club called The Finches of the Grove: the object of which institution I have never divined, if it were not that the members should dine expensively once a fortnight, to quarrel among themselves as much as possible after dinner, and to cause six waiters to get drunk on the stairs.