English English Dictionary

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1. cost


These shoes cost £70.
This dictionary, of which the third volume is missing, cost me a hundred dollars.
A comparable car would cost far more in Japan.
I was just wondering how much it would cost to have my car washed and waxed.
Cost is a definite factor in making our decision.
As soon as you have the car fixed, please send me a letter with the cost. I'll send you the money.
Four metres of this material cost nine francs; therefore, two metres cost four and a half francs.
Our competitive position is weakened by the rising labor cost.
You haven't mentioned cost, and I won't sign until I know the bottom line.
We can save on translations by giving it to an employee whose mother speaks that language. -- And I suppose you save on the cost of a doctor by seeing someone whose mother had been a doctor?
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
I think that although the transportation system in Japan is convenient, the cost of living there is not very low.
I had hoped to get another 50,000 miles out of my car, but it gave up the ghost on the expressway and it would cost too much to fix it.
There was nothing wrong with their ability, it was just that the expense for each unit was so vast that the cost performance was bad.
The debt-servicing cost on bonds will take up major portion of the budget.

2. bone


After the bone has set, the cast will be removed.
I hit my funny bone on the edge of the table.
It'll take the bone a month or so to set completely.
The bone was broken.
The division of the property was a bone of contention between the brothers.
Two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs away with it.
The breakage goes from the ankle to the knee. It's like the bone just disintegrated.
The eye socket is the bone receptacle in which the eye fits.
This fish has small bones and it has strange flavour.
A dinosaur bone has bee found nearby the lake.
A: Are you OK? B: No, I think I've broken my leg bone.
Everyone seems to have a bone to pick with someone, but only a few people can be philosophical about it.
If you have a bone to pick with a person, tell it to his face instead of saying things behind his back.
What is bred in the bone will come out in the blood.
He is bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh.

3. curved bone in your chest