How to Use low-budget in a Sentence
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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 -
Carol was, of course, one of those incredibly very low-budget films for the scale of it.
— Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 9 Sep. 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 -
But those are the small kindnesses that have endeared the Hollywood star to his indie crew on the low-budget project.
— Mike Miller, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2024 -
Though the movie was low-budget, Darren began receiving lots of fan mail.
— Victoria Edel, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2024 -
The war looks empty, low-budget, the battle scenes disengaged.
— Armond White, National Review, 2 Oct. 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 -
For example, a low-budget laptop will have less storage space and RAM than a high-end laptop.
— PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024 -
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
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