How to Use dirt cheap in a Sentence

dirt cheap

adjective or adverb
  • There’s nothing there, after all, and that means land is dirt cheap.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Some of those tickets sold out in mere minutes, so don't sleep on these dirt cheap fares.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Aug. 2019
  • But unlike quinoa—which costs about $8 per box—sweet potatoes are dirt cheap.
    — Marygrace Taylor, Woman's Day, 24 Nov. 2014
  • Some of our favorite makeup products are on sale for dirt cheap for the next two days.
    — Rebecca Carhart, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2021
  • In Vermont, back-to-the-landers bought old hill farms for dirt cheap.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The music is dirt cheap, but the cost of tickets to a live performance is out of site.
    — Randy Blaser, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Tickets may be dirt cheap, but parking won't be for a game that will be heavy on backup players.
    — Sam Allard, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Once flying microchips become dirt cheap, things would go much further.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
  • For years, interest rates were at rock bottom and borrowing was dirt cheap.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
  • And then there's the trusty, old-school Opinel, which is equal parts fantastic, simple, and dirt cheap.
    — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2017
  • But the dirt cheap cost of admission will help keep the overall price down on this ultimate theme park road trip.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Case supports wireless charging, and replacement ear tips are dirt cheap.
    — courant.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Gas was dirt cheap last spring because highways sat empty during the height of the pandemic.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 8 July 2021
  • Cyber Monday is one of the best times to get an Amazon device for dirt cheap.
    — Christina Butan, PEOPLE.com, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Their biggest concern is losing parts to backpackers on tourist visas who are willing to work dirt cheap.
    — Vulture, 1 June 2022
  • The trouble is, there are hundreds of drive options ranging from dirt cheap to crazy expensive—which one is right for your needs?
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The trouble is, there are hundreds of drive options ranging from dirt cheap to crazy expensive—which one is right for your needs?
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Most recently, the group won in the telecom sector by offering data at dirt cheap prices.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 3 June 2020
  • There are a number of excellent options, but prices can range from dirt cheap to exorbitant.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 3 June 2021
  • Not only is that dirt cheap, but Burks can’t negotiate or hold out until after the third year.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The permits to place the equipment are dirt cheap to telecoms, only costing $300.
    — Mitchell Clark, The Verge, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Using the same method, a Helicobacter vaccine against malaria would be dirt cheap.
    — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2010
  • The problem is the licenses have become a money loser and single tickets are dirt cheap.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2016
  • The Bronx’s fire-prone tenements were dirt cheap, yet wealthy investors in several countries held stakes in them.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Some catalog brokers offer their services dirt cheap with promises of speeding the process along at a lightning-fast pace.
    — Alex Heiche, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2021
  • Costco’s chickens are, notoriously, sold at a loss, kept at dirt cheap prices to keep luring customers back.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 16 Mar. 2023
  • And by removing battery and infrastructure constraints, devices could be made both tiny and dirt cheap.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2016
  • However, some point out that stocks may have room to run because prices, while hardly dirt cheap, aren't exorbitant either.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 10 Oct. 2021
  • There's a bewildering range of chef knives available, from dirt cheap to very expensive specialty blades.
    — Scott Gilbertson, Wired, 20 June 2020
  • At the height of the coronavirus pandemic last year, the cost of energy was dirt cheap as roads and airports sat nearly empty.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021

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