get expensive
Frequency: 8.5115.0 per million words
Informal way to say something is becoming high-cost.
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- Food in this country is getting very expensive.
- Gas prices are getting more expensive every month.
- Healthcare is getting so expensive that many can't afford it.
- Housing in the city center is getting increasingly expensive.
- College tuition keeps getting more expensive each year.
- Organic food is getting too expensive for most families.
- Car insurance is getting ridiculously expensive these days.
- Restaurant meals are getting prohibitively expensive.
- Energy bills are getting outrageously expensive this winter.
- Wedding venues are getting astronomically expensive nowadays.