How to Use lo-fi in a Sentence

lo-fi

noun

• There is much to like in the artist’s lo-fi look for a Wednesday night in London.
  — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2024
• Welcome to the age of lo-fi beats to take stimulants to.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2023
• Elephant shed light on the power of lo-fi and not playing by the rules of a studio.
  — Ron Hart, SPIN, 1 Apr. 2023
• Think musky candles, dim lighting, lo-fi jazz and smooth whiskey with a big cube.
  — Kelly Rook Daly, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
• But this was a very early digital film and it was meant to look a bit hazy and lo-fi.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
• The recording is lo-fi and muffled; Link can be heard mewing in the background.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• But the lo-fi, homemade verve of the film lends it a sincerity that suits the subject.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 June 2025
• The 10-track record pairs Conway’s rubbery flow with Wun Two’s dark and woozy beats, fit for a lo-fi, cult noir flick.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 22 Dec. 2023
• The film is a campy, lo-fi riff on the Frankenstein story and follows a lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses.
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2025
• There are better options now—but these lo-fi bagels still have a place in food culture.
  — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
• Heavy hip-hop, grunge, lo-fi… there are many musical facets to j-hope as a solo artist.
  — Tamar Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
• On record, Spill Tab is a compellingly lo-fi solo project for Chicha.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
• The lo-fi ad, which West said was shot with an iPhone, directed viewers to his brand’s yeezy.com website.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
• The scares doled out are effective, and the lo-fi vibes are immaculate.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2024
• But even the older, seemingly more lo-fi works on hand at MIT are just as disturbing to the eye.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
• The lo-fi pixel-art graphics sell the dank, eerie loneliness of this setting.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 June 2024
• But for a lo-fi bagel, the 365 plain would do well on hectic mornings, stuffed in your kid's hand before shooing them off to school.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
• Of course, there’s a lo-fi way to make better hydration choices, too.
  — Bill Gifford, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
• The lo-fi song also serves as a reassuring message to fans who have been by his side.
  — Vulture, 4 Mar. 2023
• Plus, the lo-fi quality of some videos lends them a greater sense of authenticity.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 24 July 2023
• With the new addition of darkwave alongside psych-rock, lo-fi, and hip-hop, the vibe is fuller and more immersive than ever.
  — Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 9 June 2025
• From lo-fi hip-hop to chamber pop, from acid funk to orchestral rock, the fingerprints remain.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 15 June 2025
• For these lo-fi fanatics, the music came with the bonus of a lovely community.
  — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 2 July 2025
• The lo-fi thing to me at first came out of economical necessity.
  — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 9 Dec. 2024
• Some also use sound (think flowing streams, chirping birds, and lo-fi beats) to stir you to reality.
  — Jamie Ballard, Allure, 16 Jan. 2025
• It’s become my benchmark for finding the perfect balance between lo-fi and hi-fi.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 13 Sep. 2024
• Their video clips are more lo-fi, their fashion is rooted in schoolyard streetwear and their music harks back to the R&B and garage sounds that dominated the charts in the early '00s.
  — Topher Gauk-Roger, Peoplemag, 20 June 2023
• Our favorite cleaning products run the gamut from high-tech robot vacuums to lo-fi steel wool.
  — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 19 Feb. 2023
• Sam Raimi turned it into the ultimate lo-fi aesthetic in his Evil Dead movies.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
• This lo-fi lamination technique can be applied to other doughs like pie crust, puff pastry, and even savory breads like roti.
  — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Feb. 2026