How to Use low-budget in a Sentence

low-budget

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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
  • Prior to Rust, Hutchins had primarily worked on low-budget and short films.
    — Rachel Brodsky, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025
  • That’s a reasonable enough line for a low-budget spy thriller but doesn’t gel with the guerilla style Burger wanted to direct.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The Bachelor franchise has a few go-to dates: helicopter rides, hot tubs in random places, and low-budget proms.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2025
  • 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, 3 Dec. 2024
  • For example, a low-budget laptop will have less storage space and RAM than a high-end laptop.
    — PCMAG, 8 Oct. 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
  • For a low-budget independent film, this was a huge challenge.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 1 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The natural choice here would be to use 70mm film, but this was very expensive and thus out of the question for a relatively low-budget film.
    — Benny Har-Even, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The first reason for the low-budget erotic thriller’s dominance had to do with Blockbuster Video’s supremacy as the United States’ biggest video store chain.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Ulrich echoed the sentiment, noting that none of the cast or crew had any idea that the low-budget ’90s film would become such a cultural phenomenon.
    — Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Grier has a good relationship with Prescott and would qualify as a low-budget backup.
    — Saad Yousuf, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025

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