1. This rider announces an exorbitant price for wheat, indicating famine prices , the sorrowful result of war.

2. Vickers was, in fact, threatened with prosecution for war profiteering, due to the exorbitant price it was demanding for each gun.

3. As I cared for purchases of food and supplies for the Bethel family, I was amazed by the exorbitant price of foodstuffs.