How to Use low-rent in a Sentence
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The setting, a kind of low-rent limbo, isn’t meant to be realistic.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
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And now, like a plot twist from a low-rent Jane Austen novel, these two seem to have developed an actual relationship.
—Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
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Not a high bar given the low-rent plastics of the original car, but now pretty much every surface in the P25 is covered in either carbon fiber or microfiber.
—Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 July 2023
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Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets were inexpensive but used limited app stores and low-rent hardware (all three things are still true of Amazon's tablets).
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 10 May 2023
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South Lake Tahoe, and to a lesser extent its sister city across the border, Stateline, Nev., is shedding its image as a haven for low-roller gamblers to the north and purveyor of low-rent roadside dive motels for ski bums to the south.
—Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
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The Diamondbacks get themselves a low-rent outfielder who has put together a nice season and been a lone bright spot for the underperforming Mets.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
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Before Egypt enacted its ownership law in 1983, one dealer quips, a tourist could buy and legally export an authentic piece of history as a souvenir from a low-rent Cairo gift shop.
—Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2023
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Unfortunately, Hollywood has raised the stakes mightily since then, so what could have been a perfectly viable B-picture back in the day now just seems rather low-rent compared with the sci-fi blockbusters of recent years.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
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Council members also want money to preserve existing low-rent housing, primarily older units that aren’t subsidized, and to help middle-income residents afford to buy homes.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2023
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