PRICE in a Sentence

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For PRICE, below is one of 359 sentences:
Even the cheapest cotton goods had skyrocketed in price and ladies were regretfully making their old dresses do another season.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRICE
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price
 n.  the high value or worth of something
 n.  value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
Classic Sentence: (149 in 10 pages)
1  Bought her I did, and the price has ruined me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  The world will be at our doors clamoring for cotton and we can command our own price.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  But there was a heavy price on these scalps.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Confederate money had dropped alarmingly and the price of food and clothing had risen accordingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Even the cheapest cotton goods had skyrocketed in price and ladies were regretfully making their old dresses do another season.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  The cotton mills of England were standing idle and the workers were starving, and any blockader who could outwit the Yankee fleet could command his own price in Liverpool.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  I'm holding them until the English mills have to have cotton and will give me any price I ask.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  And, no matter what price she had to pay, she was going to have money again, more than just enough to pay the taxes on Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  And anyone who owns a sawmill owns a gold mine, for nowadays you can ask your own price for lumber.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  Even at the moment of marriage, she had not given a thought to the fact that the price she was paying for the safety of home was permanent exile from it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  He soon found that domestic peace had its price, and that price was letting Scarlett have her own way, no matter what she might wish to do.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  She was not above selling a poor grade of lumber for the price of good lumber if she thought she would not be detected, and she had no scruples about black-guarding the other lumber dealers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  Then, to Frank's horror, she triumphantly bought his mill at her own price.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  When she heard of the price he received for a thousand feet of flooring, she burst into angry tears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
15  Still, unbidden, came the thought that Ashley could never make a quick estimate in his head and give a price that was correct, as she could.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  We can calculate the price per unit along the following lines: However, this only yields an average selling price.
17  The share price has continued to fall in value over the past week.
18  The distributors will probably bump up the price of the software when the next version is released.
19  The strongest weapon in the government's armoury is the price cuts announced on Saturday.
20  I am willing to pay whatever price you ask.
21  We were pipped at the post by a firm whose price was lower.
22  We sell a wide range of cosmetics and toiletries at a very reasonable price.
23  We sell a wide range of cosmetics at a very reasonable price.
24  There are intangible benefits beyond a rise in the share price.
25  Good advice is beyond all price.
26  The car was a bargain at that price.
27  The price includes two economy class airfares from Brisbane to Los Angeles.
28  He's been calling around trying to get the best price on a computer.
29  The years of conflict have exacted a heavy price.
30  The latest price rises mean that the real loser, as usual, is the consumer.