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How to use cheaply in a sentence

18 example sentences · adverb

Cheaply means in a cheap manner; without expending much money. Example: “At only 2% ABV, this brand of beer won't get you drunk cheaply.”

Examples of cheaply by meaning

adverbIn a cheap manner; without expending much money.

  • Corporations offshore their production, because they can more cheaply produce abroad what they sell to Americans.2010, Paul Craig Roberts, How the Economy Was Lost, AK Press, →ISBN, page 8

More sentences with cheaply

  • At only 2% ABV, this brand of beer won't get you drunk cheaply.From the entry abv
  • Shamsuddin is a skinny kind of a man in a cheaply made bush jacket.2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 74. From the entry bush jacket
  • Most clubs can supply karategis more cheaply than you will be able to buy outside.1989, David L. Mitchell, “Clothing”, in Karate, London: A & C Black, →ISBN, “Getting started” section, page 2, column 3. From the entry karategi
  • It stupefies more quickly and more cheaply than any hellbrew I have yet encountered.1960, Stephen Lister [pen name; Digby George Gerahty], In Search of Paradise, London: Peter Davies, page 120. From the entry hellbrew
  • This is about your last chance to buy cheaply as the stock in the U.1936 January 11, “The $5.00 No. 480 [advertisement]”, in Linn's Weekly Stamp News, volume 8, number 11, Columbus, Ohio, page 234. From the entry Zepp
  • For those who are equally unaware, boots theory explains how the wealthy can afford to live cheaply while the poor cannot.2023, Andrea Reupert, “'Boots' theory: why mental health initiatives need to address economic inequalities”, in Advances in Mental Health…. From the entry boots theory
  • But suppose that Britain grasps electricity produced from sources that don't involve burning pricey gas, and thus produces it more cheaply.2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “German study puts hydrogen at the back of the queue”, in RAIL, number 970, page 51. From the entry pricey
  • Mozambique is now doing house spraying successfully and cheaply without a national army of sprayers and a fleet of S.U.V.'s.2004 April 11, Tina Rosenberg, "What the World Needs Now Is DDT", in The New York Times Magazine, page 43. From the entry S.U.V.
  • It would leave a cheaply millinered corpse.2003–2004, Henry Bingham, chapter 105, in The Sons of Adam, Garden City, N.Y.: GuildAmerica Books, →ISBN, page 360. From the entry milliner
  • An r-strategist species is one that reproduces very rapidly and cheaply, with large numbers of very small offspring.1996, Raoul A. Robinson, “Chapter 4: Infection: Allo-Infection and Auto-Infection”, in Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce…. From the entry eggless
  • On the Big Island, for example, many samll. farming operations depend on unpaid labor such as 'woofers', to fulfill their labour needs cheaply.2016, Marlyne Sahakian, Czarina Saloma, Suren Erkman, Food Consumption in the City, page 118. From the entry woofer
  • Putin may now calculate he can call off the dogs of war, having achieved his aims and able to pocket his gains very cheaply.2008 August 16, Ian Traynor, “Six days that broke one country - and reshaped the world order”, in The Guardian. From the entry Putinism
  • Much modern signwriting is also done very cheaply, in the fastest possible way, and creativity is constrained by this commercial pressure as well.1991, Anthony John Lewery, Popular art: past and present. From the entry signwriting
  • With microbiomics it is possible to collect enormous amounts of genetic and biological data of microbiota, including benign and pathogenic microorganisms and their host, relatively cheaply and rapidly.2013, Alfredo Guarino, Probiotic Bacteria and Their Effect on Human Health and Well-Being. From the entry microbiomics
  • Thanks to technology, organizations are able to outsource, 'off-shore' or 'right-shore' key parts of their operations which they believe can be done more cheaply and effectively elsewhere.2009, Linda Holbeche, Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry right-shore
  • There’s also the kopi auntie who remembers what your usual beverage is just after two visits, and a new “modern western food” stall that serves pretty decent fare cheaply.2006 June 13, Benjamin Lee, miyagi.sg, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2021. From the entry kopi auntie
  • Our French neighbours are not loving us very much just now, I am told, and they are guarding themselves against supplying our sartorial or millineric wants cheaply.1922 April 8, “The World of Women”, in The Illustrated London News, volume 160, number 4329, page 518. From the entry millineric

Meaning of cheaply

  1. adverb In a cheap manner; without expending much money.
  2. adverb For a low score.

Full definition of cheaply

Questions about cheaply in a sentence

How do you use cheaply in a sentence?
Cheaply is used as an adverb. For example: “At only 2% ABV, this brand of beer won't get you drunk cheaply.”
What is a short sentence with cheaply?
“It would leave a cheaply millinered corpse.”
What does cheaply mean?
Cheaply means in a cheap manner; without expending much money.

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