How to Use top dollar in a Sentence

top dollar

noun
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  • But at least investors no longer need to pay top dollar for the ride.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2019
  • For sellers looking to get top dollar for their home, the time to sell is now.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 17 May 2022
  • Some of us would surely pay top dollar for an hour or three of rest.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Maintenance records: shows the car’s been well cared for to get top dollar.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
  • In the world's biggest and best cities, rent tends to be high, restaurants can charge top dollar, and a $20 cocktail is the norm.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The goal of each episode is to help clients find their dream home, but also make top dollar for their current home.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 13 Mar. 2020
  • For many, getting top dollar for their homes has been a good feeling.
    — Megan Gorman, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Your parents or spouse may cajole you to ask for top dollar.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • There's a bit of wear, but only enough to perhaps keep it from going for top dollar.
    — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2022
  • This is the start of a 900-mile journey to customers in France, who will pay top dollar for seafood most British people rarely eat.
    — Stephen Castle Andrew Testa, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • In the name of wellness, celebrities are paying top dollar to sit in cold water.
    — Anisa Arsenault, Verywell Health, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Prices depend on the vendor but due to the rarity, morels bring top dollar.
    — Brandon Patterson, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2018
  • And, most troubling of all, during the pandemic, wealthy patients paid top dollar to jump to the front of the Covid-19 vaccine queue.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Anyone who paid top dollar to venture to Third and King for a Lincecum start in his heyday knows.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Some will pay top dollar to have the naming rights on a celebrated stone.
    — Jill Newman, Town & Country, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Because of this, even a half-decent T206 will fetch top dollar on the auction market.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021
  • But to get his top dollar, Dinwiddie and the Mavericks need to find a way to win eight more games this season.
    — Dallas News, 19 May 2022
  • In fact, upper-class purgers pay top dollar to be able to purge in a safe, controlled hunting ground.
    — refinery29.com, 3 July 2018
  • No one pays top dollar for special teams like the Patriots.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The car owners who paid top dollar to avoid traffic would demand to expand the highway.
    — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 7 Sep. 2018
  • Jean Shafiroff, a philanthropist and socialite in New York City, is used to paying top dollar for clothes.
    — Chavie Lieber, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Notice that the Pats once again are refusing to pay top dollar for receivers.
    — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The rich have fled or remained as shut-ins, paying top dollar to have their goods and groceries delivered.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 10 June 2020
  • This year, only three of the players who commanded top dollar changed teams.
    — Carol Schram, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • There’s a pretty clear dividing line after the top five, so be prepared to pay top dollar for them.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
  • For the past five years, these top-end (and top dollar) models tuned for racing fast marathons have sucked up all the shoe-innovation air.
    — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Then a new private equity firm came in, paid top dollar for the company, and then the growth stopped, Lawson says.
    — Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Fans of the 49ers paint the place red, paying top dollar for seats and triumphantly referring to the place as Levi’s Stadium South.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Many homeowners took the opportunity to sell and make top dollar on their home, given those sky high prices.
    — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The partners, meanwhile, have interests of their own, including selling ads for top dollar against the NFL’s content.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023

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