Use cheap in a sentence
Sentences starting with cheap
- Cheap and efficient service! [9]
Sentences ending with cheap
- I didn't know you held me so cheap. [8]
- Can I not write as well as ever another--and this I know, that if I sold myself it was not cheap. [10]
- It worked two ways: it made meat dear and prisoners cheap. [5]
- I bought them very cheap. [2]
- It is easy to understand why the Queensland sugar planter should want the Kanaka recruit: he is cheap. [5]
- I wish you to take up all the country stretching away from the north pole on all sides for many degrees south, and buy Greenland and Iceland at the best figure you can get now while they are cheap. [5]
- I am recalling these details to show that the amusement was popular and cheap. [4]
- I fear that the specialist is apt to hold his intelligent reader or hearer too cheap. [6]
- Now I've got the chance to buy it cheap. [9]
- Yes, sir, the signorina was bargained for, like a horse, and her father didn't sell her cheap. [10]
Short sentences using cheap
- Nothing is small--nothing is cheap. [5]
- Very cheap, in fact. [5]
- They must be cheap. [4]
- It wouldn't be cheap, though. [11]
- The newspaper must be cheap. [4]
- Names are cheap. [6]
- Passage is cheap. [5]
- It's very cheap. [12]
- What cheap martyrdom! [11]
Sentences containing cheap two or more times
- I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars --reasonably cheap, at any rate. [5]
- An elderly man in the costume of a merchant was just holding out his hand in farewell, and he heard him say: "You've bought too cheap again, far too cheap, Jungfer Ruth. [10]
- When you shall have achieved cheap telegraphy, are you going to employ it for just your own selfish profit and other people's pecuniary damage, the way you are doing with your cheap postage? [5]
More example sentences with the word cheap in them
- Then you value your place in heaven very cheap, for I am sure you can, with the offer I make, get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' work. [7]
- When, after long years of effort, he succeeded in getting the rate established, he at once bent his energies in the direction of cheap cable service and a letter from him came one day to Stormfield concerning his new plans. [5]
- Once aroused, he would not be pacified by bribes of cheap olive branches and laurels. [9]
- Sighs are cheap with him, and every word costs a ducat. [10]
- It is dignified with a winding approach, but is itself only a cheap and decaying house. [4]
- It is a wide stretch of cheap little brick houses, with here and there a noble architectural pile lifting itself out of the midst-government buildings, these. [5]
- A picture-frame in which there was a cheap lithograph of a soldier on horseback, as it floated on told of some hearth invaded by the water and despoiled of this ornament. [5]
- Mark my words, when you see a man who wants a big office cheap, look out for him. [9]
- Do you know what an impudent thing the managers did the other night in protesting against the raising of the lights by which the house was made brilliant and the cheap illusions of the stage were destroyed? [4]
- I am very well satisfied to think the whole population believed in those poor, cheap miracles--a people who want two cents every time they bow to you, and who abuse a woman, are capable of it, I think. [5]
- Only a few weeks since you swore on my hands to guard the mysteries, and this day you have offered the great secret of the Unnameable one, the most sacred possession of the initiated, like some cheap ware in the open market. [10]
- I thought it was pretty manifest that the elderly lady was embarrassed at finding herself in such a conspicuous place arrayed in such cheap apparel; I began to feel sorry for her and troubled about her. [5]
- This desirable impression was not lost on Mrs Jarley, who, lest Nell should become too cheap, soon sent the Brigand out alone again, and kept her in the exhibition room, where she described the figures every half-hour to the great satisfaction of admiring audiences. [12]
- I said it was cheap, but I did not need them. [5]
- I said it was cheap, and full of republican simplicity, and perfectly safe. [5]
- One of them was as notorious for costly and elegant cigars as I was for cheap and devilish ones. [5]
- Her own boudoir was a cheap affair compared with that in the new house. [4]
- He dressed with unusual care for him in these days, breakfasted at the cheap restaurant which he frequented, and before noon was in the Fletcher warehouse in Pearl Street. [4]
- These notes, prepared under the supervision of proper officers, being uniform in appearance and security and convertible always into coin, would at once protect labor against the evils of a vicious currency and facilitate commerce by cheap and safe exchanges. [7]
- I struck his trail, hot, on the street, and followed it on a run to a cheap hotel. [5]
- You made yourself too cheap at court here people will surely know how to put a higher value upon a man who is equally skilful in Netherland, Italian, and German music. [10]
- It is charitable to think also that the cottagers have made it unfashionable because it is vulgar, and not because it is a cheap and refreshing pleasure accessible to everybody. [4]
- Truth held me to the full, ludicrous tragedy of the tale, to the cheap character of my old Colonel's undertaking, to the incident of the drum, to the conversation in my room. [9]
- When we came to Munich, the great annual fair was in progress; and the large Maximilian Platz (not to be confounded with the street of that name) was filled with booths of cheap merchandise, puppet-shows, lottery shanties, and all sorts of popular amusements. [4]
- Rigid ostracism was to be the price of bidding on any goods displayed, and men who bought in handsome furniture on that day because it was cheap have still, after forty years, cause to remember it. [9]
- In that old time it was a paradise for simplicity--it was a simple, simple life, cheap but comfortable, and full of sweetness, and there was nothing of this rage of modern civilization there at all. [5]
- A week after this, he was sitting in a double-bedded room in a cheap boarding house in Washington, with Col. [5]
- He had held this army cheap before, but his pride and confidence in it knew no limits now. [5]
- After the war they'll come to heel,--we'll have a cheap labour market then. [9]
- And yet all these schools, with their provincial French and their mechanical accomplishments, with their cheap parade of diplomas and commencements and other public honors, have an ever fresh interest to all who see the task they are performing in our new social order. [6]
- Also it was the time of year when butter and eggs, chickens and ducks were so cheap that it was a humiliation not to buy. [11]
- They got out the presents which they had been buying to carry home--humble things and cheap, but they would be fine there, and welcome. [5]
- The mummifying of the poor was cheap, and that of the poorest had to be provided by the kolchytes as a tribute to the king, to whom also they were obliged to pay a tax in linen from their looms. [10]
- It isn't exactly the old Puritan fatalism, or even the Greek, it's oddly modern, too, almost agnostic, I should say,--a calm acceptance of the hazards of life, of nature, of sun and rain and storm alike--very different from the cheap optimism one finds everywhere now. [9]
- The crimson sash, the broad diagonal belt of the mounted marshal of a great procession, so cheap in themselves, yet so entirely satisfactory to the wearer, tickle my heart's root. [6]
- We camped on the boiler deck, and bought some cheap literature to kill time with. [5]
- He glanced about the apartment, at the cheap portiere flung over the sofa; at the gaudy sofa cushions, two of which bore the names and colours of certain colleges. [9]
- The moral is that we must not roughly smash other people's idols because we know, or think we know, that they are of cheap human manufacture. [6]
- Well, she's more than worth while experimenting on, she must have lived and breathed what you call the `movie atmosphere' all her life, and yet she never seems to have read and absorbed any sentimental literature or cheap religion. [9]
- No one could tell exactly how the Major lived; no one knew the rigid economy that he practiced; no one had ever seen his small dingy chamber in a cheap lodging-house. [4]
- Wastefulness, cheap luxury, tawdry living, took the place of the old, frugal, simple life. [11]
- There is nothing tame, or cheap, or trivial--it is all magnificent. [5]
- For example, this Swiss watch, which I will sell you cheap, for one hundred and fifty dollars. [9]
- The exotic shops sparkled with cheap specialties; landaus, pony-phaetons, and elaborate buckboards dashed through the streets; aquatic and law-tennis costumes abounded. [4]
- The book has so many friends--this has been sufficiently established by the very large sale it has had in cheap editions--that I am still disposed to feel it was an inevitable manifestation in the progress of my art, such as it is. [11]
- Heads are not so cheap in our Anglo-Saxon countries; passions not so fierce and uncontrollable. [9]
- So do I smile now; I belong to the numerous class who are prophets after the fact, and hold my nightmares very cheap by daylight. [6]
- It was a small room, carpetless, dusty, with a naked deal table, and two cheap wooden chairs for furniture. [5]
- The hotel was small and its arrangements primitive; a good many of the visitors had their own cottages, and the rows of these cheap structures took their names from their occupants. [4]
- She had caught sight of her new Sunday gown--a cheap curtain-calico thing, a conflagration of gaudy colors and fantastic figures. [5]
- Fronting this unkempt shore is a line of barrack-like hotels, with a few cottages of the cheap sort. [4]
- We had some sharp words, and I felt pretty cheap, to come banging into a grave old person like that, with a million strangers looking on and smiling to themselves. [5]
- There are some select souls who sit apart in calm endurance, waiting to be translated out of a world they are almost tired of patronizing, to whom the whole thing seems, doubtless, like a cheap performance. [4]
- Did you ever see such a lot of cheap millinery? [4]
- They were the scrawny, tough ponies of the plains, reasonably cheap, and it took no great discernment on my part to choose three of the strongest and most intelligent looking. [9]
- To do something, say something, see something, before any body else--these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. [5]
- He had seen Samonicus, too, at Antioch, and held his medical lore, as expressed in verse, very cheap. [10]
- Collectors feel so rich in the possession of their rarer specimens, that they forget how cheap their precious things seem to common eyes, and are as afraid of being robbed as if they were dealers in diamonds. [6]
- We see the result when American railroad iron is sold so cheap in England that the poorest family can have it. [5]
- And one must remember that in those cheap times four hundred dollars was a salary of almost inconceivable splendor. [5]
- He stands always ready to help whoever needs help, as far as he is able--and not simply with his money, for that is a cheap and common charity, but with hand and brain, and fatigue of limb and sacrifice of time. [5]
- He had no printed books, no newspaper, no steam caravans, no forks, no soap, none of the thousand cheap conveniences which have become matters of necessity to our modern civilization. [6]
- The furniture is plain and cheap, there is no ornamentation anywhere; yet it is a heaven for the self-sacrificers, for the beer there is incomparable; there is nothing like it elsewhere in the world. [5]
- Certainly the spotless pillows, the pretty curtains, the pincushion, and charmingly valanced bed and shelves, cheap though the material was, showed a woman's very friendly care. [11]
- Delightful illusion of paint and tinsel and silk attire, of cheap sentiment and high and mighty dialogue! [5]
- I saw him once again in a cheap restaurant, whispering a resolution to another delegate, but he did n't appear in the con-vention. [4]
- A cheap looking-glass on it was draped with muslin and tied at the top with a bit of pink ribbon. [11]
- The latter, by official necessity, went in the meek and lowly swallow-tail--a deliciously sarcastic contrast: the one dress representing the honest and honourable dignity of the nation; the other, the cheap hypocrisy of the Republican Simplicity tradition. [5]
- She took no offence at his reference to nursery gossip, which she had learned to hold cheap. [6]
- The mahogany scales off now and then in spots, and then you see the cheap light stuff--I found--very fine in conversational information, the other day when we were in company. [6]
- How the experiences of this old man's eventful life shame the cheap inventions of romance! [5]
- There's a plenty of these 'rickshas, and the tariff is incredibly cheap. [5]
- In the body of the wagon, lying on a mattress pressed down in the midst of broken, cheap furniture and filthy kitchen ware, lay a gaunt woman in the rain. [9]
- The cheap colours of the shoddy open-air clothing-house, the blank faded green of the coster's cart; the dark bluish-red of the butcher's stall--they all take on a value not their own in the garish lights flaring down the markets of the dusk. [11]
- They thought everything of it; and it was not very nice, either,--a cheap sort. [4]
- I was ashamed of having exposed my cheap imaginings to him, and was expecting some sarcasms, but it did not happen. [5]
- In the midst of all this magnificence, the solid gold and silver furniture of the altar seemed cheap and trivial. [5]
- All this is not to be had for nothing, and it will be cheap in the end. [10]
- And is it not so cheap, and so common, and often so trivial, that the reader smiles in derision when the newspaper mentions it? [5]
- An American need not be a philosopher to hold these things cheap. [6]
- Charley had drunk nearly a whole bottle of cheap whiskey within an hour. [11]
- Resolved, That a national bank, properly restricted, is highly necessary and proper to the establishment and maintenance of a sound currency, and for the cheap and safe collection, keeping, and disbursing of the public revenue. [7]
- See the long, narrow, sordid streets lined with the cheap commodities of the poor. [11]
- We never saw Mont Blanc at his best until we were many miles away; then he lifted his majestic proportions high into the heavens, all white and cold and solemn, and made the rest of the world seem little and plebeian, and cheap and trivial. [5]
- They began with mind--more or less--they ate the fruits of indolence, got precious near being sinful as well as indolent, and ended with cheap cynicism, with the old 'quid refert'--the thing Hamlet plagiarised in his, 'But it is no matter. [11]
- It was a memento-factory, and the stock was large, cheap, and varied. [5]
- You seem to me to hold his human masterpieces very cheap. [6]
- But fancy articles manufactured from it are very much like all ornamental work made of nature's perishable seeds, leaves, cones, and dry twigs,--exquisite while the pretty fingers are fashioning it, but soon growing shabby and cheap to the eye. [4]
- Hereabouts is a man's life held cheap, else I had not been thy guest to-night; and Kaid's Palace itself would be empty, if every man in it must be honest. [11]
- He esteemed a man who was not going to let himself go cheap. [8]
- For his "sweet little Juli's" sake, and to obtain for her a cheap nurse who would be entirely dependent upon him, he burdened himself with the lame ropedancer. [10]
- It probably spends little for news, has only one or, at most, two editors, is crowded with advertisements, which are inserted cheap, and costs, delivered, a little over six francs a year. [4]
- In the dim light let into the farther room we saw a four-poster bed, old and cheap, with ragged curtains. [9]
- When, in the last century, in England, the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Information, which accomplished so much good, was organized, this responsibility was felt, and competent hands prepared the popular books and pamphlets that were cheap in price and widely diffused. [4]
- There is no lack of amusements, with balls, theaters, and the cheap concerts, vocal and instrumental. [4]
- That was why Kitty Tynan had always a good background; for what her bright colouring would have been in the midst of gaudy, cheap chintzes and "Axminsters," such as abounded in Askatoon, is better left to the imagination. [11]
- Crowds of the kind seen at cheap sales filled all the passages and alleys of the Bazaar. [2]
- I didn't know it was so cheap as that," exclaimed the senator, "and everybody in the State havin' to own one in self-protection. [9]
- The fuzzy blossom is the color of bad cigar ashes, and appears to be made of a cheap quality of gray plush. [5]
- As a lecturer is public property, we may remark, that his outer garment (toga) was of cheap stuff and somewhat worn, and that his general style and appearance of dress and manner (habitus, vestitusque) were somewhat provincial. [6]
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