How to Use low-tech in a Sentence

low-tech

adjective

• This very low-tech tool is one of my all-time favorites.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 5 June 2023
• And that’s another one of the pleasures of the movie is all the low-tech effects.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Aug. 2024
• Benj's low-tech, but creative way of viewing the eclipse.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2024
• Very low-tech by modern standards, with no lights on it, the ticket booth was state of the art for its day.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• Some techniques are low-tech, such as mass tree planting.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 11 May 2023
• One consequence of such bans is a boom in low-tech devices that keep kids off their phones.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024
• The current best treatment is very low-tech: treat the wound and slowly extract the worm over several painful weeks.
  — Kimberly Paul, The Conversation, 2 Feb. 2023
• Nokia is attempting to make low-tech phones cool again with the launch of three colorful, sleek 4G feature phones.
  — Sarah Lord, PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024
• Amazon There are high-tech coffee gadgets and then there are low-tech coffee gadgets; the Hario Slim Plus is one of the latter.
  — WIRED, 13 June 2023
• With art and mirrors on the walls instead of flat-screen TVs, the rooms feel wonderfully low-tech; plans for an onsite library are in the works.
  — Elizabeth Nicholas, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2023
• No Food Processor Hummus Here’s a low-tech recipe that comes together with a zip-top bag and rolling pin.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
• In a clearing at the edge of the river, the miners had driven rows of cut saplings into the dirt—a low-tech defense against landing helicopters.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Without sensors to measure air quality, planes rely on a low-tech method: the smell test.
  — Kiera Feldman, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2023
• Close blinds and curtains A simple, low-tech way to help cool your home is keeping blinds and curtains closed during the hottest parts of the day to block out direct sunlight.
  — Rob Nikolewski, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
• For such a low-tech car, the Beetle—at least for a time—offers a decidedly high-tech transmission.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
• With all the outdoor games and toys kids have to choose from, something as simple as a hula hoop might seem a little low-tech or outdated—but that's half the fun.
  — Catherine Holecko, Parents, 16 July 2024
• Gondry, as always, is into doohickeys, contraptions, and finding low-tech ways to do high-tech things.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 June 2023
• At most battles, especially the smaller ones, the judging is a low-tech affair.
  — Dvora Meyers, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2024
• Sticking with the low-tech vibe, Morgan also opts for a notebook to mark down anything important.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2024
• And if all else fails, workplace experts say users can always rely on the low-tech solution: turn your device off.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• Researchers have been studying the lake’s clarity for more than 50 years, and the technique remains charmingly low-tech.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• The branches themselves dangle from clothes hangers, as low-tech as the operation gets.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• But in some countries such as China and India, QR codes are a low-tech foundation for hundreds of millions of people to pay for items with their phones.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• The novels, however, are low-tech and mention Q only obliquely.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• Yes, this 80-minute, low-tech production carries Broadway ticket prices, but that fact should stick in the craw only until its dislodged by the first guffaw.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 11 July 2024
• Its fuel economy is only a little better than the low-tech Cherokee's.
  — Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 29 May 2023
• Many of the best foot massagers are electronic, with plenty of gizmos and doodads to amp up the relaxation, but there are effective low-tech options, too.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
• And yet subsea cables are low-tech, too, coated in tar and unspooled by ships employing basically the same process used in the 1850s to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
  — Jeremy Anderberg, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2023
• The two Soviet-era helicopters sped toward the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka just after dawn, flying 20 feet above the ground to keep the low-tech machines off radar.
  — Ian Lovett, wsj.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• To that end, the MTA installed a series of decidedly low-tech barriers at three stations earlier this year.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024