Example sentences for: low-rent

How can you use “low-rent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Four decades after it exploded, tourism on the islands overheated, leaving in its ashes a forest of massive, block-booked hotels and beach-hugging villa communities with few discernible ties to Spain—places lined with German bier halls, English fish ‘n’ chips joints, and low-rent bars and discos.

  • This looked like low-rent PR and legal work for several reasons.

  • Young doctors don't learn the techniques because 1) they fear pro-life violence or 2) they consider abortion a low-rent procedure for second-class docs.

  • Great reviews for this Eddie Murphy-Steve Martin comedy about a low-rent movie-maker (Martin) and his ragtag stable of actors: "Perhaps the funniest movie for grownups so far this year" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Martin, out of desperation, hires a painfully awkward nerd (Murphy) who has no film experience other than being "an active renter at Blockbuster" but who bears a striking resemblance to action star Kit Ramsey (also played by Murphy).

  • The NYT editorial on the subject says the performance might have done Clinton some good, but is still "one of the most low-rent moments in White House history."


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