How to Use low-rent in a Sentence

low-rent

adjective

• These free or low-rent apps often have huge numbers of installs.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
• Why do your first interview looking like you’re crammed into a low-rent diner?
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2024
• The setting, a kind of low-rent limbo, isn’t meant to be realistic.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• For a low-rent version of that reminder, see below about Gibson’s new store.
  — Nikki Baird, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• The film comes to seem like a low-rent mix of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024
• The result can be really low-rent stuff appearing on a publisher's pages.
  — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
• When the ceiling collapses in her Montauk apartment, she’s forced to move to a bleak low-rent motel.
  — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
• And the podcast and YouTube stuff feels low-rent compared to everything else on the platform.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026
• Some areas of Dallas lost over 50% of their low-rent units, according to the report.
  — Neal Franklin, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026
• The new clubs are mostly low-rent affairs, with little in the way of décor or special effects, and many of them are open only one night a week.
  — Amy Virshup, Vulture, 14 May 2025
• The sketchiest part of my route ran near campus, where residential neighborhoods gave way to some frat buildings and low-rent student housing.
  — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
• And now, like a plot twist from a low-rent Jane Austen novel, these two seem to have developed an actual relationship.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
• Hundreds of thousands of low-rent apartments, many of them aging and in need of urgent repair, are at risk of being yanked out from under poor Americans.
  — arkansasonline.com, 10 Mar. 2025
• The initial producer’s pitch was for a low-rent superhero, but finding something that’s never been done for even a generic superhero is a challenge.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 4 June 2026
• Though clearly intended to convey a sense of luxury, the low-rent production values make both characters and movie feel ersatz from the outset.
  — Michael Nordine, Variety, 26 Apr. 2024
• The teaser shows Cruise in cowboy boots dancing with a shovel in what looks to be a Los Angeles-type of low-rent apartment, as well as on a pier.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025
• City officials say the law and the new fund will work together to help preserve low-rent housing, which is considered crucial to reducing local homelessness.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
• Not a high bar given the low-rent plastics of the original car, but now pretty much every surface in the P25 is covered in either carbon fiber or microfiber.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 July 2023
• Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets were inexpensive but used limited app stores and low-rent hardware (all three things are still true of Amazon's tablets).
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 10 May 2023
• As the probe unfolded, Kelly Dever was one of several low-rent Canton losers who couldn’t keep their stories straight when questioned by the feds.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
• The Diamondbacks get themselves a low-rent outfielder who has put together a nice season and been a lone bright spot for the underperforming Mets.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
• Although the visual quality throughout is strictly low-rent, the arresting opening and closing sequences reflect the visual panache of Spike Jonze, who produced.
  — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
• The film around him displays similarly little interest in forcing the matter, even after Mike is released from jail — now sober for seven months — and lands a job as a cook at a low-rent hotel on the outskirts of town.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 17 May 2025
• New in the lineup is Strip Law, a series about an uptight Vegas lawyer who teams up with a low-rent magician to add some pizzazz to Sin City’s dumbest cases.
  — Lucy Ford, Time, 27 Dec. 2025
• Council members also want money to preserve existing low-rent housing, primarily older units that aren’t subsidized, and to help middle-income residents afford to buy homes.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2023
• Unfortunately, Hollywood has raised the stakes mightily since then, so what could have been a perfectly viable B-picture back in the day now just seems rather low-rent compared with the sci-fi blockbusters of recent years.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
• The natural habitat for these kinds of production values is home viewing, where the ripe dialogue can do the heavy lifting and the low-rent CGI explosions don’t have to stand up to big-screen scrutiny.
  — Catherine Bray, Variety, 26 Nov. 2025
• Before Egypt enacted its ownership law in 1983, one dealer quips, a tourist could buy and legally export an authentic piece of history as a souvenir from a low-rent Cairo gift shop.
  — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2023
• Grandma’s old sewing machine is in here, plus a treadmill, a wedding arch, years of tax returns in boxes, and, hanging down from the ceiling, a sheet of sheer red fabric from back when Maribeth ran her low-rent puppet theatre, Hands Within.
  — George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
• In the nineteen-twenties, a Spanish aeronautical genius named Juan de la Cierva invented something called an autogyro, a kind of low-rent helicopter precursor.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024