How to Use at a cost in a Sentence

at a cost

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  • Ads would close the gap, but at a cost.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • This could be seen as democratising, but this comes at a cost.
    — Shain Shapiro, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • But the Niners found it at a cost.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Each ticket tier comes with a few more perks — at a cost, of course.
    — Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 23 July 2025
  • All of this will come at a cost, though—and a pretty steep one at that.
    — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Space for four people, across two rooms, at a cost of $250 per night.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Whether time, money or other resources, change comes at a cost.
    — James Itkoff, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Yale became the idea, even at a cost of $78,000 a year.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Parking on the festival grounds is available at a cost.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Three years later, the Chinese line opened at a cost of $36 billion.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The state will lease Laurel Park racetrack for three years at a cost of one dollar per year.
    — Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The Senators got a win over the New York Rangers, but at a cost.
    — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The Miami Dolphins won their first game of the season - but at a cost.
    — Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Jackson did most of the wolf howls himself The album came together in a scant two months – at a cost.
    — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 4 Jan. 2025
  • When a fiber breaks, and most will at some point, it’s repaired, often at a cost of millions or even tens of millions of dollars.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The zoo will host the black-and-white duo under a loan from China for the next decade, at a cost of $1 million a year.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024
  • The lab would process about 150 samples over three months, at a cost of about $90,000.
    — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Some students attend tutoring up to four days a week, at a cost of up to $1,000 a month.
    — Jackie Mader, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The Shetland Islands are famed for their remote beauty but for locals this comes at a cost.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Progress comes at a cost The costs of the reading initiative have not been small for Cudahy.
    — Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2023
  • The Tollway plans to build a full interchange at a cost of $132 million.
    — Marni Pike, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • After a month of bombing the Houthis to a stalemate at a cost of $1 billion, this threat rings a bit hollow.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2025
  • The zoo is hosting the black-and-white duo under a loan from China for the next decade, at a cost of $1 million a year.
    — Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The first phase, covering 6 miles of line, has been completed at a cost of more than $12 million.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The merger preserved some physical presence, but at a cost, Greenstein said.
    — Jeffrey Selingo, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Adam found a private nursing home company that would care for Michael in his home, at a cost of $960 a day.
    — Jordan Rau, NPR, 29 Nov. 2025
  • This new offering replaces the need to combine the two (at a cost of $32 per day) into one flat $20 fee.
    — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The Navy and the Air Force launched more than eleven hundred strikes, at a cost of at least a billion dollars in the first month.
    — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • And that lower quality comes at a cost, the CSIS team explained.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • However, it must be requested and paid for privately at a cost about $250.
    — Ariana Hendrix, STAT, 10 Feb. 2026

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