How to Use indie in a Sentence

indie

noun
  • In 2013, Hirsch became attached to the lead role in the indie biopic.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The indie family drama's road to the big screen was a long one.
    Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 12 May 2023
  • Still, seeing a few more indies in the limelight is great.
    Matt Gardner, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Mowry and Hardrict first met in 1999, on the set of the indie movie Hollywood Horror.
    Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • It should be said that this look, like its cousins ( ’90s and indie sleaze), is the jurisdiction of the eyes.
    Sloane Crosley, Vogue, 29 Apr. 2024
  • This is the first film ever made as an indie with that kind of budget that just went for it all.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 22 Dec. 2024
  • American indie band Cage the Elephant will open for all the shows.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Daniel Glass, who heads the indie label Glassnote, said.
    John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • What about Once, that charming indie about a pair that spends a week in Dublin writing songs about their love?
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Fast forward 30 years or so, and Gn is one of the few indies who have succeeded on his own terms.
    Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The indie studio will release the film in theaters and on demand on Dec. 23.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 14 Nov. 2022
  • This is not groovy indie finery; there’s a rock-as-high-art vision at work here.
    Evan Haga, SPIN, 24 May 2024
  • There are few bigger indie success stories in the past 20 years than Death Cab for Cutie.
    Jeff Terich, SPIN, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The result was a blockbuster-budget game with an indie feel.
    Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • And a little bit of All forms of rock ‘n roll, alternative, indie, and rock.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 21 June 2024
  • Wang still can’t believe all this happened to him — that this outsider had become the toast of the indie movie business.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 24 July 2024
  • But that's not all that the hip indie distributor that could has brought to audiences over the past 10 years — far from it.
    Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • And the intimate late-night live music indie shows at the Dakota Tavern can't be missed.
    Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Both indie and megastar acts are putting out their albums in analog form.
    Tim Barribeau, WSJ, 17 May 2022
  • Willie and Me will have its world premiere in Oldenburg on Sept. 13, kicking off the 30th edition of the German indie fest.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
  • That is, until we were hit with a wave of new dance-centric music videos, from pop stars and indie bands alike, in recent months.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The Chicago indie rockers don’t need anything more than that.
    Grant Sharples, SPIN, 25 May 2022
  • Notably, many of the musical partners here come from the worlds of retro folk, indie pop, and Americana.
    The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Rents rose faster than the astonishing body count, and indie clubs simply couldn’t hold on.
    Joe Berkowitz, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Although the American indie folk singer didn't appear as a special guest, the Warsaw crowd loved the mashup.
    Bryan West, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2024
  • There was a brief spate of indie Westerns making the festival rounds around the time The Revenant was slouching its way towards the Oscars.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Searchlight, the indie studio that’s distributing the film, added it to the release calendar on June 21.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Vote on the best hamburger in town The only Latin indie music festival in Phoenix is back.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Career Advice: Hoult is talented and bankable in indie films and TV series, but so far not many studio leading roles have come his way.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The gaming industry has been in deep recession for a little over a year, with mass layoffs still affecting larger studios and many profitable indie studios due to shut down by the end of the year.
    Rebecca Liao, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024

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