Examples of use of sunk cost
1. And the investment, once made, becomes an anchor; a sunk cost, as economists put it.
2. Lyapunova said that while she pressed hard to get a cash advance from the airline right away, and was unable to get that, she has since given up and is not filling out any reimbursement forms, considering the extra money she had to spend a sunk cost.
3. Sunk cost figured in Whirlpool‘s decision to ship front–loader washing machines to the United States from its factory in Schorndorf, Germany, which Whirlpool acquired in 1''1 with the purchase of the appliance operations of Philips N.V. for more than $1 billion.