How to Use low-budget in a Sentence

low-budget

idiom
  • Known for its campy, low-budget style, the show has gone on to cult status.
    Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 25 June 2024
  • Let the small-market, low-budget teams sweat the small stuff and play between the margins.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Baldwin was both the star of the low-budget Western and one of its producers.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • On a risk-to-reward basis, low-budget horror is the only sure thing in the film business these days.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Baldwin’s IMDb page shows about a half-dozen projects in the works, which mostly appear to be low-budget features.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • This was very low-budget and shot at one location in Georgia.
    Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 25 July 2024
  • Though the movie was low-budget, Darren began receiving lots of fan mail.
    Victoria Edel, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2024
  • For Reds ownership, there should be a big takeaway from the Rays' rousing success with a low-budget roster: Stay the course on the rebuild.
    Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Best movie of 2023 so far?'Linoleum,' a low-budget stunner that plays with time, memory Is this the final season for 'Ted Lasso'?
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Yet, as has often been the case in recent years, the list of the best movies of 2023 includes many low-budget independent productions.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Here, the grit and (relatively) low-budget grime of the Channel 4 days is replaced by an American dream sheen.
    WIRED, 21 June 2023
  • Over the course of his half-century long career, Roger Corman filled America's drive-ins with hundreds of low-budget movies.
    Neda Ulaby, NPR, 12 May 2024
  • The horror hit launched over a dozen sequels and inspired countless other low-budget slashers.
    Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • At that time, the independents just did tiny little low-budget pictures.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 13 May 2024
  • From background roles, to soap operas, to low-budget genre flicks, these actors have done anything and everything to break in and be remembered.
    Jacob Linden, Redbook, 17 Aug. 2023
  • It was set in Bangkok and Rayong, with the co-workers traveling to Thailand on a low-budget quest to find a new packaging factory.
    Patpicha Tanakasempipat / Bloomberg, TIME, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Chiang recalled a screening some years ago of a low-budget South African film in the Johannesburg township of Soweto.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 1 Feb. 2023
  • That quick wit becomes necessary when the film is a noticeably low-budget affair.
    Stephen Saito, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The handing off of the gun was 12 days into filming on the low-budget film based on a story conceived by director Joel Souza and Baldwin, who was both the star and a co-producer on the movie.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 July 2024
  • The film has a sense of stylization that was unusual for low-budget films of the moment, creating a disorienting world of pink.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • It's become a low-budget horror franchise, rather than the initial thing, which was Stan Winston trying to do a creature feature.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 30 May 2023
  • The segment in Lourdes has a certain low-budget quality, as there’s only one angle from which the exterior of the shrine can be seen.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 July 2023
  • Watch on Deadline Jackson’s low-budget style and subject matter is closer to the early films in the Jackson family canon than the ones in Middle-earth.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Besides, low-budget airlines like SpiceJet are struggling to keep their finances healthy.
    Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Amazon has a low-budget balance board, or opt for the original Plane Cloud balance board from FluidStance.
    Christopher Murray, Fox News, 2 July 2024
  • One of his first jobs was as an editor for Ken Loach, maker of low-budget social-realist dramas.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The investors in the low-budget dark comedy, which include Kelce, are the first to take advantage of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act to finance a film.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Stanford was used to low-budget indie films at the time, not million-dollar pyrotechnics that involved blowing up cars.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 July 2024
  • Allen, who was born in Los Angeles in 1944, made his start animating TV commercials and low-budget films.
    Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • From low-budget romps to high-energy blockbuster films, Star Trek has become one of the most influential sci-fi franchises of all time.
    Sage Anderson, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'low-budget.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: