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
• In the face of the sun's powerful rays, regular sunglasses made of cheap plastic and polycarbonate material just aren't going to cut it.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
• Last month, von der Leyen joined the launch of the European Industrial Deal, an initiative supported by almost 1,000 businesses, unions and associations urging cheaper energy, less red tape and more clean-tech funding.
  — Ewa Krukowska, Fortune Europe, 5 Apr. 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024