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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Global media didn’t want to wait that long to capture more of his take on the need for an indie cinema reset.
    John Bleasdale, Variety, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Before his role, Sexton had only appeared in the indie fave Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995).
    Drew MacKie, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
  • People were stumbling on the indie darling through video on demand.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 May 2023
  • There are tons of cult classics, indie hits, and other low-key titles on sale starting at just $1, too, like the undying Left 4 Dead 2.
    Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 15 Mar. 2024
  • This has allowed the U.K. to have a much greater market share, because indies can make stuff cheaper, in a more profitable way, and frankly better.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 13 June 2024
  • She's also released seven studio albums as one half of the indie pop duo, She & Him.
    Nina Derwin, Redbook, 6 Sep. 2023
  • As an indie studio, Sony does not have any platforms of its own to funnel programming to.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The film is a true indie — Jacobs wrote the parts for each actress and hand-delivered them an analog script, then shot the whole thing in 17 days in a real New York City apartment.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
  • That’s true at various scales, from Snoop in New York to an indie band getting its first airtime on a Fortnite radio station.
    Andrew Webster, The Verge, 4 Nov. 2024

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