How to Use low-rent in a Sentence

low-rent

adjective
  • These free or low-rent apps often have huge numbers of installs.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Why do your first interview looking like you’re crammed into a low-rent diner?
    — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2024
  • The setting, a kind of low-rent limbo, isn’t meant to be realistic.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • For a low-rent version of that reminder, see below about Gibson’s new store.
    — Nikki Baird, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The film comes to seem like a low-rent mix of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The result can be really low-rent stuff appearing on a publisher's pages.
    — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
  • When the ceiling collapses in her Montauk apartment, she’s forced to move to a bleak low-rent motel.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Some areas of Dallas lost over 50% of their low-rent units, according to the report.
    — Neal Franklin, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The new clubs are mostly low-rent affairs, with little in the way of décor or special effects, and many of them are open only one night a week.
    — Amy Virshup, Vulture, 14 May 2025
  • The sketchiest part of my route ran near campus, where residential neighborhoods gave way to some frat buildings and low-rent student housing.
    — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
  • 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
  • Hundreds of thousands of low-rent apartments, many of them aging and in need of urgent repair, are at risk of being yanked out from under poor Americans.
    — arkansasonline.com, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The initial producer’s pitch was for a low-rent superhero, but finding something that’s never been done for even a generic superhero is a challenge.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 4 June 2026
  • Though clearly intended to convey a sense of luxury, the low-rent production values make both characters and movie feel ersatz from the outset.
    — Michael Nordine, Variety, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The teaser shows Cruise in cowboy boots dancing with a shovel in what looks to be a Los Angeles-type of low-rent apartment, as well as on a pier.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025
  • City officials say the law and the new fund will work together to help preserve low-rent housing, which is considered crucial to reducing local homelessness.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • As the probe unfolded, Kelly Dever was one of several low-rent Canton losers who couldn’t keep their stories straight when questioned by the feds.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Although the visual quality throughout is strictly low-rent, the arresting opening and closing sequences reflect the visual panache of Spike Jonze, who produced.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
  • The film around him displays similarly little interest in forcing the matter, even after Mike is released from jail — now sober for seven months — and lands a job as a cook at a low-rent hotel on the outskirts of town.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 17 May 2025
  • New in the lineup is Strip Law, a series about an uptight Vegas lawyer who teams up with a low-rent magician to add some pizzazz to Sin City’s dumbest cases.
    — Lucy Ford, Time, 27 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The natural habitat for these kinds of production values is home viewing, where the ripe dialogue can do the heavy lifting and the low-rent CGI explosions don’t have to stand up to big-screen scrutiny.
    — Catherine Bray, Variety, 26 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • In the nineteen-twenties, a Spanish aeronautical genius named Juan de la Cierva invented something called an autogyro, a kind of low-rent helicopter precursor.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The Muslim community in Dearborn, and indeed all Muslim communities across Michigan and the whole of our nation, will not be intimidated or baited by low-rent bigots.
    — Heath Kalb, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025
  • With very few exceptions, low-rent buildings are run down, services are almost impossible to obtain, and except for the fact that New Yorkers have been so brutalized by their living conditions, such housing would be uninhabitable.
    — Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025

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