How to Use cheapen in a Sentence

cheapen

verb
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  • I thought that the show cheapened the lives of the people it portrayed.
  • Poor marketing can cheapen a brand name.
  • The wedding ceremony was cheapened by the best man's tasteless jokes.
  • Using the national flag in advertising only cheapens it.
  • Some feel the pageant could cheapen the memory of the the lives lost, Reuters reports.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2021
  • This is top-shelf brisket that melts in your mouth and shouldn’t be cheapened with bread nor sauce.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Only an unattractive Alpine CD unit, stuck in the center of the dash, cheapens the place.
    — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 4 May 2023
  • The 60/40 yield has also risen since stocks cheapened and Treasury yields climbed, but not as fast as the T-bills’.
    — Ye Xie, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Others say the company is looking to cut costs, and that the change will cheapen the value of the pricey $ dolls.
    — Caroline Alkire, Good Housekeeping, 23 May 2017
  • Others say the company is looking to cut costs, and that the change will cheapen the value of the pricey $ dolls.
    — Caroline Alkire, Good Housekeeping, 23 May 2017
  • To call them just games is to cheapen their very existence.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Perhaps what pushed Lee Sedol to retire from the game of Go was the sense that the game had been forever cheapened.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Now that’s going to be used to put people out of work, or cheapen their labor.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Why do people want to cheapen the achievements of women?
    — The Tylt, AL.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The sheer number cheapens it a bit too — if one or two heroes die, that feels like something.
    — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 7 May 2018
  • But don’t cheapen what the Knights did this week by linking their philanthropy to the future of the Trail Blazers.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Giving a spot to a player who can’t even compete, let alone contend, would cheapen the event.
    — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • And does this cheapen the experience of Steve's dramatic death scene in the first film?
    — David Betancourt, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2018
  • Features could dilute an artist’s vision and cheapen the work.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
  • What does cheapen his take is his further treatment of the subject of Meyer—or rather, the coach’s absence.
    — Joan Niesen, SI.com, 19 July 2019
  • Both Canada Goose and Bain wanted to avoid exhausting the brand or, worse yet, cheapening it.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2018
  • And Christians deserve a good film about faith: a film that shows the triumph of good over evil without cheapening that struggle.
    — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 5 Apr. 2018
  • His contention was that a culture of outrage was cheapening our anger.
    — David French, National Review, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The outright pushiness of it all has cheapened secular Christmas in my mind.
    — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 8 Sep. 2017
  • That doesn’t cheapen Georgia’s 33-18 triumph over Alabama on the big stage.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The two are incongruous and, ultimately, cheapen the image of the brand.
    — Anne D'innocenzio, The Seattle Times, 18 May 2017
  • Though presumably on-hand to provide laughter during that long 20-second trek, his digs came off snarky and off-putting and cheapened the moment.
    — Mara Reinstein, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Furthermore, the loss of such an important market has cheapened the prices offered for soybeans and, as a result, dragged down the prices offered for corn and wheat.
    — WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Meanwhile, the entire concept of stardom was being cheapened by nobodies from TikTok and reality TV.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 23 May 2024
  • We are confronted by a nihilist culture seemingly bent on a suicidal course, where reason no longer counts for anything, where life itself has been cheapened, where even (or perhaps because) human identity is obscured and confused.
    — Robert Sirico, National Review, 24 June 2024

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