How to Use two-bit in a Sentence

two-bit

adjective

• Initially, theater houses exhibited short clips in dingy rooms and were considered little more than two-bit sideshows.
  — Hannah Fish, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2025
• Their only inheritance is a legacy of two-bit crime that inspires them to run increasingly audacious frauds.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 July 2026
• Every two-bit candidate without an articulable platform argues for it and blames its absence on the incumbent.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2026
• Indeed, one of the main attractions of such grand movie houses was the opulence itself – where everyday Joes, Janes and Junes might be enveloped in grandeur with a two-bit ticket.
  — Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2026
• Head right, and there came public land, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest with its creeks and gulches and two-bit towns like Peanut and Beegum.
  — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
• Using sensors and vibration patterns The patch encodes text by breaking each ASCII character into four segments, with each sensor representing a two-bit segment.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
• Cristian’s fixation on winning a vintage two-bit arcade game on the sidewalk not far from Olga’s home is a romantic touch that turns, briefly, surreal as Cristian mentally threads his experience with the game into his experience with his now certainly dying mother.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2026
• Soon enough, they’re joined by Thomas and oldest brother Franck, the brains of the operation, played by Magimel in a tan suit and semi-transparent shades— less flaming psychopath, more two-bit gangster given his Three Stooges-esque, family-run operation.
  — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 22 May 2026