His successor, Marcian, refused to continue to pay this exorbitant sum.

This exorbitant sum was considered scandalous by the whole country.

I sent him a check for an exorbitant sum.

And he did pay to get her out of that silly auction, an exorbitant sum, I might add.

But this was nothing compared to the exorbitant sums that were thrown around for what he considered basic office necessities.

Never mind the exorbitant sum we'd paid for our chicken and potatoes.

The Government was not working, and we were paying exorbitant sums for it not to work.

The company is rescued by a strange warrior who demands an exorbitant sum in payment for her services.

He actually threatened to go to the beadles until I paid him an exorbitant sum.

It wasn't an exorbitant sum when her superiors realized the difficulty of reaching the man they wanted killed.