exorbitance

Example Sentences

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The exorbitance of Park Place, the alien sound of Kamchatka and Irkutsk — these were backward-feeling games that urged ravenous competition.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023

“Do you need to have all this excess and exorbitance spent on making a bathroom experience fun and exciting?”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2022

And sadness, like exorbitance, depends entirely upon what it’s being compared to.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 11, 2019

What's interesting about all this is not that people at the bottom of the market get fleeced, but rather that those same tactics – complexity and exorbitance – are deployed by the mainstream as well.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2012

This dearth, it is fair to assume, was caused by the exorbitance of Red-Eye, and it illustrates the menace he was to the existence of the horde.

From Before Adam by London, Jack