3130 examples of cheap in sentences

It had one great merit in Lady Mary's eyes, that it was cheap.

Here is nothing cheap but houses.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

It is astonishing how cheap these splendid accommodations of the cafe, almost princely in their style, can be rendered.

Fruits and a very healthy and nutricious kind of nuts, (the Brazilian nuts), I bought in great abundance and exceedingly cheap from such as hawked them about on the streets.

When I first saw numbers of them make meals of dry bread and fruit, I supposed poverty impelled them to partake of so scant a diet, but by the time I came back from Egypt, I too had learned to sit down and eat dry bread and grapes together, though I could procure meat as cheap in Italy as elsewhere in Europe.

The war of 1812 had, by shutting out foreign products, stimulated certain manufactures difficult to import, but necessary for military operations, like cheap clothing for soldiers, blankets, gunpowder, and certain other articles for general use, especially such as are made of iron.

Without aid from governments, this branch of American industry would have had no chance to contend with the cheap labor of European artisans.

I do not believe in cheap labor.

I would not make this country exclusively agricultural because we have boundless fields and can raise corn cheap, any more than I would recommend a Minnesota farmer to raise nothing but wheat.

The landlords of Great Britain may yet demand protection for themselves, and, as they control Parliament, they will look out for themselves by enacting measures of protection, unless they are intimidated by the people who demand cheap bread, or unless they submit to revolution.

I maintain that Mr. Webster, in defending our various industries with so much ability, for the benefit of the nation on the whole, rendered very important services, even as Hamilton and Clay did; although the solid South, wishing cheap labor, and engaged exclusively in agriculture, was opposed to him.

It is not even cheap, and when it is disreputable it is the most disreputable thing on earth.

A trifle of fifteen or twenty pounds would buy one a coat that would be cheap at sixty guineas.

I have no doubt that after their memorable encounter in the Bardell v. Pickwick case, Serjeant Buzfuz and Serjeant Snubbin went out arm-in-arm, and over their port in the Temple (where the wine is good and astonishingly cheap) made excellent fun of the whole affair.

This is old, cheap, and profitless stuff, you say.

"That's what might be called cheap funerals, Padre Camorra, eh?" remarked Ben-Zayb.

Our guest is no cheap shopkeeper like your brother.

The bunkhouse in the camp, the cheap rooming house in town and the Union Hall.

You've got a comfortable home, and dog cheap, too.

It is in all respects equal to the handsomest kind of English printing, and has the added merit of being cheap.

He left behind him his initials cut deeply in the lid of his desk, a miscellaneous collection of cheap fiction, and a few experiments in book-keeping which the manager ultimately solved with red ink and a ruler.

And cheap enough, too.

Barker spent his mornings in his boarding-house, apparently luxuriating in long slumbers; he ate always at the same cheap restaurant; and his afternoons and evenings were devoted largely to the science of eight-ball pool at Kelly's place.

There is there such a superabundance of the laboring population, that for a long time to come, labor must be very cheap, and the habitually indolent will doubtless prefer employing others to work for them, than to work themselves.

3130 examples of  cheap  in sentences