How to Use low-budget in a Sentence

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  • Known for its campy, low-budget style, the show has gone on to cult status.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 25 June 2024
  • Wer is the sort of low-budget, high-concept film that’s all too rare these days.
    — EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Let the small-market, low-budget teams sweat the small stuff and play between the margins.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Baldwin was both the star of the low-budget Western and one of its producers.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Carol was, of course, one of those incredibly very low-budget films for the scale of it.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2024
  • On a risk-to-reward basis, low-budget horror is the only sure thing in the film business these days.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Baldwin’s IMDb page shows about a half-dozen projects in the works, which mostly appear to be low-budget features.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • This was very low-budget and shot at one location in Georgia.
    — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 25 July 2024
  • But those are the small kindnesses that have endeared the Hollywood star to his indie crew on the low-budget project.
    — Mike Miller, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Her first role was in the 1977 low-budget slasher horror film Nurse Sherri in the titular role.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Though the movie was low-budget, Darren began receiving lots of fan mail.
    — Victoria Edel, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The war looks empty, low-budget, the battle scenes disengaged.
    — Armond White, National Review, 2 Oct. 2024
  • This high-camp, low-budget nostalgia trip has ridden the Windsweeper 5000 to cult status in the decades since its premiere.
    — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2024
  • For Reds ownership, there should be a big takeaway from the Rays' rousing success with a low-budget roster: Stay the course on the rebuild.
    — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Jeff, Aubrey, and Alison were like the Three Musketeers of kooky low-budget comedies.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
  • For example, a low-budget laptop will have less storage space and RAM than a high-end laptop.
    — PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024
  • For example, a low-budget laptop will have less storage space and RAM than a high-end laptop.
    — PCMAG, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Best movie of 2023 so far?'Linoleum,' a low-budget stunner that plays with time, memory Is this the final season for 'Ted Lasso'?
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Damien Leone’s low-budget sleeper came in third after a surprise $19 million #1 last week.
    — Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Yet, as has often been the case in recent years, the list of the best movies of 2023 includes many low-budget independent productions.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Here, the grit and (relatively) low-budget grime of the Channel 4 days is replaced by an American dream sheen.
    — WIRED, 21 June 2023
  • Over the course of his half-century long career, Roger Corman filled America's drive-ins with hundreds of low-budget movies.
    — Neda Ulaby, NPR, 12 May 2024
  • The horror hit launched over a dozen sequels and inspired countless other low-budget slashers.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • At that time, the independents just did tiny little low-budget pictures.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 13 May 2024
  • From background roles, to soap operas, to low-budget genre flicks, these actors have done anything and everything to break in and be remembered.
    — Jacob Linden, Redbook, 17 Aug. 2023
  • It was set in Bangkok and Rayong, with the co-workers traveling to Thailand on a low-budget quest to find a new packaging factory.
    — Patpicha Tanakasempipat / Bloomberg, TIME, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Chiang recalled a screening some years ago of a low-budget South African film in the Johannesburg township of Soweto.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 1 Feb. 2023
  • That quick wit becomes necessary when the film is a noticeably low-budget affair.
    — Stephen Saito, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The handing off of the gun was 12 days into filming on the low-budget film based on a story conceived by director Joel Souza and Baldwin, who was both the star and a co-producer on the movie.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 July 2024
  • Chill factor: Other than a few low-budget indie successes, 2024 was disappointing for movies about things that go bump in the night.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2025

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