CHEAP in a Sentence

Learn CHEAP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
123 example sentences for CHEAP, such as:
1. A good education is not cheap.
2. It is both cheap and abundantly available.
3. The company provides cheap Internet access.
4. The watch was cheap, but it goes quite well.
5. Smoke detectors are cheap and easy to put up.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CHEAP
cheap
 a.  of very poor quality; flimsy
 a.  tastelessly showy
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  She was clutching something in her hand, and the reek of heavy cheap perfume came into the room with her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  The hurrying lines pushed her back onto the packed sidewalk and she smelled the reek of cheap corn whisky.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  Everybody needed beds and china and mattresses and I sold them cheap, because I figured it was about as much other folks' stuff as it was mine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  In the semi- darkness she saw boxes and bales of goods, plows and harness and saddles and cheap pine coffins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  Secondhand furniture, ranging from cheap gum to mahogany and rosewood, reared up in the gloom, and the rich but worn brocade and horsehair upholstery gleamed incongruously in the dingy surroundings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  But I want to buy a sawmill--and I think I can get it cheap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  He's got to have cash money pretty quick and he'll sell it cheap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  He said I could sublease them for next to nothing and feed them dirt cheap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  All they want is to feed them cheap and git all the work they can out of them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
10  Back in the woods there was a still that manufactured a cheap quality of corn whisky and, by night, the cabins in the creek bottoms resounded with drunken yells and curses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
11  Whereas you"--he laughed again--"you have no instinct about people, no discrimination between the cheap and the great.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
12  And so he, too, would have become cheap if, in those first far-away days, she had ever had the satisfaction of refusing to marry him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
13  Scarlett, when you are forty-five, perhaps you will know what I'm talking about and then perhaps you, too, will be tired of imitation gentry and shoddy manners and cheap emotions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
14  She had reached a point where abrupt retrenchment was necessary, and the only cheap life was a dull life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
15  Just beneath it stood the photograph of Lily Bart, looking out imperially on the cheap gimcracks, the cramped furniture of the little room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  It is both cheap and abundantly available.
2  All good things are cheap, all bad things are very dear.
3  The unit is comparatively easy to install and cheap to operate.
4  The watch was cheap, but it goes quite well.
5  The word "cheap" has negative overtones.
6  With competition from cheap imports, the British coal industry is facing a serious crisis.
7  My cheap camera takes better pictures than his expensive one.
8  The company provides cheap Internet access.
9  So was Laker's concept of cheap but regular air travel.
10  Factory shops contain a wide range of cheap furnishings.
11  It's an economy to buy good shoes; they cost more, but they last much longer than cheap ones.
12  The availability of cheap long - term credit would help small business.
13  Since you are an old customer, you can buy the goods on the cheap.
14  Smoke detectors are cheap and easy to put up.
15  A good education is not cheap.