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Expensive Pronunciation

Pronounce Expensive as EH EH K S P EH N S IY V EH.

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    Expensive phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'expensive'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of expensive: /ɛkspɛnsɪvɛ/
    • Modern IPA representation of expensive: /ɛxpɛnsɪvɛ/

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    List of meaning for expensive

    financially costly

    expensive(adj)

    high in price or charging high prices

    "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"

    commanding a large price

    expensive clothing that only the truly wealthy can afford

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    expensive in sentence

    1. There are lots of people that would like to own a complete collection of a novelty item, but it’s expensive to buy old artwork, books, or films.

    2. She had an exquisite upbringing, which left her with expensive taste.

    3. The rap mogul was flashy with his money and showed off his wealth through blinged-out jewelry and expensive cars.

    4. Although Sam loves expensive flowers, he won’t buy them because they wilt so quickly.

    5. The parents had a suspicion that their child was the one that broke the expensive vase, but they had no evidence.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term expensive

    If you want to have expensive electricity you buy nuclear generators, if you want dirty electricity you burn coal, if you want clean energy in the long run that will be cheaper, you transfer to a renewable system, but the decision has to be made by your own government.

    – Rainer Baake

    The Treasuries market is still quite expensive with yields quite low. We think there is better opportunity to rotate into corporate and emerging market bonds.

    – John Bellows

    Our pregnancy success rate increased by 20 percent after we started using this gadget, in the past, we had to use huge, expensive microscopes and physically count each sperm one-by-one.

    – Sam Wang

    The diesel engine will be more expensive and we need to fulfill the 95 grammes. Then the twin engine is a very attractive alternative.

    – Volvo Chief Executive Hakan Samuelsson

    From a cost perspective, it is important to figure out how to do this in a low cost way. If you start using expensive munitions, it is prohibitively expensive.

    – Phillip Finnegan

    ZANU-PF should be utterly ashamed of hosting an expensive birthday bash for their aging ruler whilst more than 90 percent of Zimbabweans are wallowing in grinding poverty caused by decades of Robert Mugabe's misrule and mismanagement of the economy, the money that is being budgeted for this ill-conceived birthday bash should actually be used to import maize to avert the impending starvation in Masvingo province and other parts of the country.

    – Obert Gutu

    I think the important thing is all the products in our cohort are highly rated, everyone likes the cheap products as much as the expensive ones.

    – Steve Xu

    The availability of second-line drugs is increasing, but they're quite a bit more expensive and have more side effects associated with them.

    – Ravi Gupta

    Convincing parents that manufacturing is not just a dirty dying business and is a viable alternative to an expensive college degree with no guarantee of work at the end of it is a major challenge we face.

    – Dick Gilchrist

    Reactive (strategy) is way more expensive than proactive.

    – Vicki Bryan

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