at a cost

phrase

: by giving up something else

He had achieved fame, but at a cost; he'd lost many friends and no longer talked to anyone in his family.

Examples of at a cost in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Nieman also described how the district is using nearly 200 spot coolers at a cost of $550 per unit per week. — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2026

While speaking with Fox News Digital, Ramsay admitted that his own pursuit of perfection in the kitchen had come at a cost. — Ashley Hume , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

The district also renewed its contract with SchoolAI at a cost of $78,650 for the current school year. — Lee V. Gaines, NPR, 28 Sep. 2026

Instead, the agency housed an average of 16 detainees daily there this year, at a cost of millions of dollars, the report found. — Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for at a cost

• holocaust
• permafrost
• accost
• crisscrossed
• defrost
• embossed
• exhaust
• recrossed
• uncrossed
• bossed
• crossed
• dost