How to Use cheap in a Sentence

cheap

1 of 2 adjective

• This gas station is cheaper than the one by the highway.
• He wears a cheap watch that's always breaking.
• Don't be cheap—buy good quality tires for your car.
• I always buy the cheapest brand of cereal.
• The suprising thing is that the prices ... are still cheap.
  — WIRED, 24 Oct. 2023
• The prices vary, but the cheapest options were around $100 last week.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 26 Mar. 2024
• That said, three of the cheapest counties in the country are in Texas.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
• Seat Geek Seat Geek has ticket as cheap as $2 for the game.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 29 Aug. 2023
• The downside is that the handle is made of cheap plastic and the the glass base is fragile.
  — Jaina Grey, WIRED, 30 June 2023
• The decor is cheap: liquor bottles and dead snakes pickled in jars.
  — Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• But sales were sluggish, and prices for those cheapest seats dropped $20 by the morning of the show.
  — Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2024
• The cheapest tickets for the shows that haven’t sold out yet start at about $400, as of this writing.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 30 Sep. 2023
• As a people, Americans were the tallest in the world by the 1800s, propelled by abundant land and cheap food.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• For the same reason that electric cars are cheaper to drive.
  — Michael Barnard, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• Gas prices are also still cheaper than a year ago — though not by much.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 17 Aug. 2023
• That does not mean, however, that the task is simple or cheap.
  — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• This kind of customization isn’t cheap: A single seat and side start at $1,175.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2023
• Be wary of brands that are far cheaper than those of competitors.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• Seat Geek Seat Geek is offering seats for as cheap as $59.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2023
• That is, buying a cheaper home and renovating just to get your foot in the door.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 7 Feb. 2024
• So, yes: The cleanest and cheapest move for the ‘Pac-2’ would be for nine (or more) MW schools to vote for dissolution.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
• To be fair, TV antennas are way cheaper than the Vision Pro.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• But the positive of that is that there was a creative flourishing in a city that at the time was pretty cheap.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Some products are marked down to their cheapest price since Black Friday!
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• One more disclosure: this subscription is just for the adult bathroom—my kids are still stuck with the cheap stuff.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 30 June 2023
• This was a lot cheaper than the alternatives and does the job really well.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Good Housekeeping, 28 Aug. 2023
• But a drop in rough diamond prices does not mean shoppers will see cheaper price tags in stores.
  — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 1 Oct. 2023
• Some brands might market themselves as cheaper alternatives and end up at the top of the search page.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 11 Dec. 2023
• As with most cheaper options, the Ignite isn’t perfect.
  — Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• And trust us, finding a cheap mattress that doesn't sacrifice comfort is hard to come by.
  — Sarah Madaus, Allure, 14 Mar. 2024

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cheap

2 of 2 adverb

• This one is on the $260 million worth of players who came up cheap.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• There are some rough edges, such as the cheap-feeling steering wheel stalks and some of the other switchgear.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 5 June 2021
• Johnny Bright, a star at Drake, was cheap-shotted over his race and his talent.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022
• Waititi has infused the film with the same cheesy, cheap-looking aesthetic that gave his previous films such low-key charm.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
• Overly shiny or the wrong shade of gold or silver metals can steer the accessory in a cheap-looking direction.
  — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2022
• The tree was usually found on land that had been given away or sold cheap by the federal government—and then had to be repurchased at very high cost.
  — Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
• What Cowboy Bebop is, down to its hammy cyberpunk signage and the nails of its cheap-looking sets, is a performance.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
• The rent started out cheap and then dropped off to nothing after the landlord’s demise, when ownership of the property fell into legal limbo.
  — al, 25 June 2020
• The Goldpro comes with a travel bag, concentrator nozzle and very cheap-looking plastic travel brush.
  — Lesley Kennedy, CNN Underscored, 20 Jan. 2021
• Keychron also used a new type of stabilizer that screws into the PCB, and there was no cheap-sounding plastic rattle among the keys when using stabilizers.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2022
• Researchers enrolled 49 people to test the efficacy of two anti-itch creams: one that came in expensive-looking packaging, and another that came in a cheap-looking orange packaging.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2017
• Ruben’s peroxide dye job and cheap-looking punk-life tattoos belie an innocence in his eyes, an innocence Ahmed infuses with wonder and terror, depending on the situation — and sometimes both.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
• Modest performance, some cheap-looking interior plastics, clumsy optional dual-clutch transmission.
  — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 16 Nov. 2022
• This one is on the $260 million worth of players who came up cheap.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• There are some rough edges, such as the cheap-feeling steering wheel stalks and some of the other switchgear.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 5 June 2021
• Johnny Bright, a star at Drake, was cheap-shotted over his race and his talent.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022
• Waititi has infused the film with the same cheesy, cheap-looking aesthetic that gave his previous films such low-key charm.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
• Overly shiny or the wrong shade of gold or silver metals can steer the accessory in a cheap-looking direction.
  — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2022
• The tree was usually found on land that had been given away or sold cheap by the federal government—and then had to be repurchased at very high cost.
  — Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
• What Cowboy Bebop is, down to its hammy cyberpunk signage and the nails of its cheap-looking sets, is a performance.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
• The rent started out cheap and then dropped off to nothing after the landlord’s demise, when ownership of the property fell into legal limbo.
  — al, 25 June 2020
• The Goldpro comes with a travel bag, concentrator nozzle and very cheap-looking plastic travel brush.
  — Lesley Kennedy, CNN Underscored, 20 Jan. 2021
• Keychron also used a new type of stabilizer that screws into the PCB, and there was no cheap-sounding plastic rattle among the keys when using stabilizers.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2022
• Researchers enrolled 49 people to test the efficacy of two anti-itch creams: one that came in expensive-looking packaging, and another that came in a cheap-looking orange packaging.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2017
• Ruben’s peroxide dye job and cheap-looking punk-life tattoos belie an innocence in his eyes, an innocence Ahmed infuses with wonder and terror, depending on the situation — and sometimes both.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
• Modest performance, some cheap-looking interior plastics, clumsy optional dual-clutch transmission.
  — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 16 Nov. 2022
• This one is on the $260 million worth of players who came up cheap.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• There are some rough edges, such as the cheap-feeling steering wheel stalks and some of the other switchgear.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 5 June 2021
• Johnny Bright, a star at Drake, was cheap-shotted over his race and his talent.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022
• Waititi has infused the film with the same cheesy, cheap-looking aesthetic that gave his previous films such low-key charm.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 5 July 2022

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