How to Use cheap in a Sentence

cheap

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  • 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 | Mheim@al.com, 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 | Mheim@al.com, 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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