How to Use bargain basement in a Sentence

bargain basement

noun
  • Unnoticed by me was the fact that Tim was a countertenor, and I a bargain basement bass.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 16 June 2020
  • The 4-4 Chiefs could also use some help, and Beckham can now be rented for the rest of the season for a bargain basement price.
    cleveland, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Are those shares now selling at a bargain basement price?
    Peter Cohan, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • Refurbished items are a great way of picking up great items for bargain basement prices.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Several teams would quickly try to sign him as a bargain basement free agent.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 10 Apr. 2022
  • That would be kind of ironic, but the market doesn’t care, the U.K. can be in the bargain basement but it can just as easily get lobbed into the dumpster by a U.S. crash.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Late last week, the nation of Poland bought a Leonardo da Vinci painting at a truly bargain basement price.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 2 Jan. 2017
  • The fantasy of the day after Christmas takes place in the bargain basement, an imaginary space beyond the fourth wall where objects must be sold, posthaste.
    Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
  • At $203, its stock isn't exactly bargain basement, but would fit within the Dow's existing range.
    chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
  • Though his run with the Padres has yet to reach double digits, Sanchez has delivered the most aggressive and productive at-bats at the bargain basement cost of $1.5 million.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2023
  • The home, which Lisa Maria says the family only uses sparingly now that their kids are in school, is being offered at the bargain basement price of $57.4 million.
    Bess Levin, vanityfair.com, 30 Mar. 2017
  • Retailers, loath to waste their stashes, are unloading stock for bargain basement prices.
    Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2018
  • And there have been some willing purchasers -- especially at the bargain basement prices for Russian product.
    David A. Andelman, CNN, 31 May 2022
  • Many investors have wondered if larger drug companies will take advantage of the bargain basement pricing of biotechs that are down 90 percent or more from recent highs just two years ago.
    Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The reports came just a few days after Disney+ launched: Thousands of the streaming service accounts were already up for sale on various hacking forums, at bargain basement prices.
    Wired, 20 Nov. 2019
  • At the same time, supply shortages could make the oil Russia has been selling at its own bargain basement prices to sympathetic nations like China and India, among others, all the more attractive.
    David A. Andelman, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Its business model is built on opportunistic buying; GOBM takes surplus goods off the hands of mainstream grocery stores at bargain basement prices, passing those savings along to the customer.
    Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 9 Aug. 2022
  • But, comparatively speaking, the local prices remain bargain basement compared to San Francisco, where the median price for a house topped $1.3 million in April.
    Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 25 May 2018
  • Over the past 13 years, the glamor category has been handily beating unlovely value, the longest period in history for which what's supposed to be the market's bargain basement has lagged.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Transfer deals which aren't widely spoken of, but turn out to be great value for money - not necessarily bargain basement prices, but in hindsight can be regarded as smart purchases.
    SI.com, 16 July 2019
  • The retailer, which sold designer clothing at bargain basement prices, is reopening in spring 2023 at its former location near the World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 17 May 2022
  • While many multitools incorporate a knife blade into their toolset, the blade is typically of bargain basement quality and can be complicated to access.
    Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2022

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