How to Use indie in a Sentence

indie

1 of 2 noun
  • See you at the indies next spring.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • What does that look like on a tight indie like this?
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 29 Dec. 2025
  • But same goes for those of you who buy books from your local indie.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Is there room for indies and giants?
    — Hillel Italie, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
  • You guys parted ways with your label and went indie last year.
    — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The indie’s gotten recent flack for its sub-par wages.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But then you’re drawn back to something like this, a low-budget indie.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
  • City of God is an indie that broke big in the aughts, and for good reason.
    — Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
  • So indies can account for that helpful bump.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • This is not groovy indie finery; there’s a rock-as-high-art vision at work here.
    — Evan Haga, SPIN, 24 May 2024
  • This is the first film ever made as an indie with that kind of budget that just went for it all.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The indie family drama's road to the big screen was a long one.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 12 May 2023
  • That should give a sense of the wide range of outcomes that are capable for indies.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The low-budget indie movie realm is often where fresh new talent breaks through.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Some of the new titles have been on the smaller-scale, indie-feeling side of things.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Aug. 2021
  • There’s more to this soon-to-be monstrous indie hit than postcard vistas.
    — Jonathan Peltz, Wired, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Noting a few other indies that have been sticking around.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 10 May 2026
  • Most indies reporting so far this weekend are wide.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 14 June 2026
  • But the original indie single has a raw, feverish rush of its own.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2021
  • For those wanting a more punk, alt-rock and indie feeling Christmas.
    — Lincoln Wright, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2021
  • From there, the indie will expand to more locations, with dates to be announced.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The soundtrack ranges from indie-pop to R&B to upbeat dance tracks.
    — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Joe Kye blends indie-rock, jazz, classical, pop, and world folk to create a unique sound.
    — oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2021
  • For Death Cab, the return to an indie is a homecoming of sorts.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2026
  • American indie band Cage the Elephant will open for all the shows.
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
  • What about Once, that charming indie about a pair that spends a week in Dublin writing songs about their love?
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
  • And a little bit of All forms of rock ‘n roll, alternative, indie, and rock.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 21 June 2024
  • He's received more experience in the indies since then.
    — Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Wang still can’t believe all this happened to him — that this outsider had become the toast of the indie movie business.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 24 July 2024
  • The result is a sound that leans more indie-rock than Americana, but is informed by a hefty dose of soul.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2021

indie

2 of 2 adjective
  • Rodriguez will also star in the indie film that she is set to direct and produce.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026
  • For three years, the indie studio kept the doc’s very existence under wraps.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The back-to-school feeling of popping into an indie bookstore for a brand new notebook.
    — Sarah Allard, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2026
  • For indie investors, the pathway to getting their money back gets murkier by the day.
    — Joseph Kahn, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
  • LaBute’s latest feature is a return to his low-budget, indie roots.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
  • There are so many indie films that distributors can buy product for pennies on the dollar.
    — Joseph Kahn, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Among them was Chromeo, whose sleek, playful funk sound traveled through the city’s indie and electronic scenes.
    — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2026
  • And the megastudio will start a $5 million annual fund to bankroll indie movies.
    — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Love might be in the air with a forthcoming romantic-comedy indie film.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The indie book store is one of several stores transforming the area and namechecked by Time Out.
    — Gage Goulding, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Usually, when people used to ask me about this, it was tinged with this idea of traditional indie values.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Stripped of production, his indie hit ‘Love Takes Miles’ plays even better.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The people behind the indie project proved more controversial.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Despite this draw to hard sounds, her own music was existing largely in the indie pop and R&B lanes.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2026
  • See and shop vintage toys and collectibles, modern retail products and indie toy companies.
    — Mary Caldwell, AJC.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The indie film is about a pair of Scottish rappers who pretended to be American to get a record deal.
    — Isabelle Farina, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The experience has also taught Caster to adapt to a changing indie film landscape.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2026
  • His emotional speech was followed by a set from local indie band Bank Holiday.
    — Sophie Williams, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Laugh out loud, rock out to an indie band, learn about duck decoys, see a mashup of classic literature and rock-n-roll or let your kids have early trick-or-treat fun.
    — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The indie film became a horror classic, and helped revolutionize the slasher genre.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Instagram and indie fashion mags blew up, and Cassel started doing profiles.
    — Grace Byron, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Merit, a leading indie brand in the skin care and makeup space, chose to launch into fragrance with extrait rather than a more conventional eau de toilette.
    — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • In 2019, Max Winkler was an indie film director about to level up.
    — William Earl, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
  • His own trajectory highlights how an indie ecosystem can feed into the broader industry.
    — Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • One of country’s biggest stars will make his way there, while a rising indie star is set to take over the T-Mobile Center this month.
    — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
  • His brand of indie pop has been particularly popular on TikTok, which has spurred much of his recent rise.
    — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Jay Tha Gawd has been making a new name for himself on the indie scene as well, appearing in several events in the area recently.
    — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The correction is creating a divide between indie stage operators and the studios that can treat their lots as part of a much larger business.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Many niche fragrance brands—also called indie fragrance brands—put a lot of care and artistry into their formulations and view perfume as a true art, which is reflected in their scents.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Rather than competing with studios, Ferguson built his own network of department heads that come out of the indie world who have grown together.
    — Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

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