How to Use low-rent in a Sentence

low-rent

adjective

• The setting, a kind of low-rent limbo, isn’t meant to be realistic.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024