| 单词 | cheap |
| 例句 | I used colored pencils and copied the picture off a cheap hologram bookmark. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Back in the living room, she serves the men a tray of fried plantain chips and peanuts and casabe and pours each one a Presidente in the cheap glasses she keeps for servants. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Door blows open. This lock was cheap but it’ll do the trick.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I was getting some meg feed on the food bar and the pot stickers were really cheap. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel underdressed with my cheap sneakers and worn jeans. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The cheap Russian boots pinch her feet as she trudges, the last of a single file of would-be guerrillas, up the intolerably fragrant mountainside. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-five marks was cheap for a Rola radio—even cheaper than the People's Radio. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Mass production, cheap labor, and big capital were the watchwords of the day now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It’s cheaper here, but I can get it in the city. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It was the same kind of cheap, gaudy- looking junk that you can see in any of the black ghetto furniture stores today. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Actually, I could use an aluminum pan. That’d be cheaper. I could make more moons....” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The street foods are readily available and always cheap. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “But even if we can find him, and even if he bends that stiff neck of his, his help don’t come cheap.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z At the suggestion of Shin’s new friend, who knew cheap places to eat, they stopped on the way to his apartment and bought hot noodles from a street vendor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “It isn’t practical for the brush, but it was cheap at the sale.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew Mom was working crazy hard all the time, and even so, we could only afford the cheap cereal. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After a long silence, Tranquilino creaked onto his feet and fetched two glasses, filling both a third full of cheap bourbon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a humble place, made up of rows of folding chairs and walls of Sheetrock covered by cheap wood paneling. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z It is so cheap and comes in so many different forms, the other foods just can’t compete. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The light that was shining from my mother’s eyes, as she fingered the cheap cotton cloth, was something I will never forget. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The light from outside was cut into strange strips, weird angles, by the cheap lumber somebody had used to do a half-assed board-up job of the windows. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “I thought,” Eleanor said carefully, “that I might even look around. Old houses are usually cheap, you know, and it’s fun to make them over.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z But I paid for Amanda’s gas, and her mom’s van isn’t cheap to fill up. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z You drank cheap Liebfraumilch in plastic cups, calling it cocktails, and carved off hunks of Cheddar cheese with a Swiss Army knife. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Come November, as the weather turns cold across the rest of the country, some five thousand snowbirds and drifters and sundry vagabonds congregate in this otherworldly setting to live on the cheap under the sun. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He traveled from track to track, looking at hundreds of cheap horses, but he couldn’t find the one he sought. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z To earn money for cheap beds in cheap places, I handed out circulars and swept gas stations and shucked oysters, but my real job was running my mouth. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Gey paid his way through a biology degree at the University of Pittsburgh by working as a carpenter and mason, and he could make nearly anything for cheap or free. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We traded clothes and splurged on cheap black wigs. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “For once I wanted us to feel like millionaires. And if twenty cents can make us feel rich, it’s a cheap price to pay.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone can buy cheap paintings and reproductions to decorate a room, where they often hang virtually unnoticed, perhaps deservedly so. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Letting yourself go is an alarming notion; it is said of older women who become frowzy and fat, and of things that are sold cheap. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Because he was no bother, ate little, required nothing, and was a lover of cheap wine, no one found him a nuisance. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Against a filthy wall was a dresser with a cheap lamp on it, and a cheaper fan. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It’s the one he uses on all the tutumpotes when they come in wanting to buy the cheaper policies. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps he found me attractive. But most likely it was because he drank some cheap wine. I went with it. Didn’t want to compromise the mission after coming so far.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It’s an expense, but maybe they think the price of appearing to be benevolent rulers instead of tyrants has a cost benefit—it’s cheaper than bullets and burying bodies. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He took me to a beauty salon, and we found a cheap wig—curly black synthetic hair. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Finally, one of them, Adesuwa or Uche, said, “This your orange juice is the cheap brand o! You don’t buy Just Juice anymore?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "This is cheap steel, but it's a real sword." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “You know it’s no cheap thing, indulging yourself with water. I’d have to charge you fifty cents or more a foot, depending on what we find down there. It can run into money.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I got a raise, to four bucks an hour, and at the end of the summer moved out of the job-site trailer to a cheap studio apart-ment west of the downtown mall. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The best and cheapest controls for vegetationTare not chemicals but other plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is a cheap brown plastic radio, with a simple dial and no shortwave so that it only receives German stations. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The Indian indentures were lied to, they were tricked, they were no more than cheap labor to keep the plantations running—but they were still individuals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I’m very glad I could help you two save a library from turning into a cheap, Floo-powdered World of Wizardry tourist trap,” she continued, her voice shaky. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z It’s a cheap dress and several years out of style, yet she makes it look like the newest fashion plate from Paris. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z How to know your own worth and polish it, never flashing it around like a cheap ring. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a cheap fragrance, which I tried to fool myself would cover the essence of crab. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The menu was inventive and playful and definitely not cheap. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “And cheaper! When 1 was a young man, mild beer—wallop, we used to call it— was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He would go to different department stores and steal a bunch of clothes and then sell them on the street for cheap. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “But it’s a lot cheaper to keep money in my pocket than to feed a kid. I’ll hold out for the cash.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I know. I settled here at first because it was cheap. Now I feel obliged to stay because my customers know to find me here.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Inside lay what appeared to be a wax sculpture of Travis in a cheap blue suit—plastic and unreal somehow. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z We heard the whistle of fifes on the green and the rattle of cheap drums. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The thread’s cheap dye bleeds into the fabric. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when a problem is easier and it’s possible to solve it completely, simulation is frequently faster and cheaper. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the long run, however, these cheap calories come with a high price tag: obesity, Type II diabetes, heart disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Now he went to a new, cheaper grocery, even though the first grocer was friendlier than the second, and had been so nice as to count his change out slowly, one coin at a time. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z With all those decaying apartment complexes in town, Clarkston had a surplus of cheap housing. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I was suddenly very hot inside the cheap synthetic sack, and I pressed my knees against the lining, trying to create a little breathing room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z To check out the makeup and the cheap costume jewelry and the candy aisle, and to find the teen magazines to slowly pore over and discuss. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Except for water and some cheap decorations, it seemed majestically empty. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Aunt Ruth was waiting for me in my room, her back to the door, new clothes, funeral wear, hung crisp from cheap hangers, in either hand. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z He showed her several editions, some rudely printed on cheap paper with only paper backing, but there was only one she wanted. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z As Buddy Ray approached, a pungent stench of cheap cologne failing to mask foul body odor wafted off him, the foul smell taking the lead like a Doberman he was walking. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “But think about it. The food is cheap, right? That means the owners can’t spend lots of money on good, fresh ingredients. What if we’re not even eating real meat?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The carnations were cheaper, so I grabbed a dozen yellow ones. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z She lived in a cheap basement flat on the fringes of a very refined neighborhood and studied her betters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She hires the real down-and-outs, immigrants from Russia or Pakistan, people who don’t speak any English, figuring she can get them cheap. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fine, that was a cheap shot,” he admitted, bringing his sword up to deflect another blow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Usually, it reeked of sweat and rubber with a hint of cheap fruity body spray. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A group can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a huge factory is cheaper and more uniform. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Ifemelu’s room, was the cheapest, the smallest, facing the scuffed brick walls of the next building. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A cheap movie camera was slung over his shoulder and under his arm he had a bundle which appeared to be a rolled-up bedsheet. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike in Honduras, in the United States beer is cheap. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The house we lived in was nothing more than a shack, a barracks with single plank walls and rough wooden floors, like the cheapest kind of migrant workers’ housing. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The complete patio set—called "masculine salmon" on a manufacturer's tag sticking out from one of the cheap metal chairs—has cut distinct circles in the wall-to-wall carpeting. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z His only flaw seems to be linked to being cheap, which really isn’t that bad of a thing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z And the East India tea, even after that tax was paid, would be better and cheaper than any the Americans ever had. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He took the cheap ballpoint pen and traded it for a roll of Scotch tape. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It figured—he would be too cheap to pay Rocky five cents for a grocery sack. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Desiring cheap, expendable labor, colonists imported nearly eight thousand Africans from the western and southern parts of the continent in the mid-1600s. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “You can get a starter for cheap at the Light Market, bottom level,” continued Somkit. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z "I'm no cheap jongleur, either, you know. I sing for lords and ladies! One day I'll sing for the king himself!" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Papery ropes of skin wrapped delicately around his thigh and down his calf, like wax dripping from a cheap candle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Bran glimpsed skin tear like cheap cloth, heard the splintering of bone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I says what else do you expect except every dam drummer and cheap show that comes to town because even these town jellybeans give her the go-by now. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma knows I don’t like pink, but she must’ve found the ribbon or bought it cheap. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Agribusinesses also need cheap corn from which they make processed food and hundreds of other products. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They’re sterile, institutional, with fluorescent lights and cheap floor tile, like a hospital. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “If your grandmother has the kind of money to buy you expensive white people’s books,” the teacher said, “why can’t she buy you cheap black books to use in school?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I shut my eyes, waiting for him to switch on the cheap nightstand lamp, but he kept to his rule: no lights outside the bathroom. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The waitress takes away my meatballs and brings out the Doorman’s lasagna in a cheap plastic box. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z It was bad enough I had to get mixed up with Bodega just so we could have a better place to live, a cheaper place, and save some money, too. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Nok couldn't help being cheap—her money supply was dwindling, and she needed to make it last. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Ay, and out of it to better things,” said Thambi, with flint in his voice, “but for spawn like yours who have sold themselves cheaper than dirt.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was one small problem with my new lifestyle; fencing wasn’t free or cheap. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He wondered if Donatelli was just too cheap to fix them. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There was also an arcade in which you could play games, have your picture taken, or even make a cheap plastic record of your voice. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Yes, he probably paid a fortune for it and now he can’t show it to anyone because he’s afraid someone will make a cheap, knockoff version. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Still, Shin understood that he was only welcome in the farmer’s house because he was cheap labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It was the best living situation we had ever had and it was more than affordable, it was downright cheap. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “How much do you think I can get a formal for? This pageant isn’t going to be cheap.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He smelled like cigarettes and cheap trucker cologne. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Some kids even printed out cheap bar codes and pasted them over the codes on more expensive products. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They never will call me cheap for publishing an autobiography. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Five dollars is cheap since I don’t have any friends except Cathy who is only my friend till Tuesday. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I bought the cheapest bowl of dal I could find. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z It must have taken them at least an hour to get all those nickels into my locker, all for a moment’s cheap laugh. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Hazel was easily fifty, if not older, and a more regular part of the Deuce than the cheap beer and watered-down metal bands that toured through. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Below it on the floor, just where it had fallen from Mrs. Hubbard’s hand, was a straightbladed dagger—a cheap affair, sham Oriental, with an embossed hilt and a tapering blade. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Or to those signs—“Beware of the Dog”—that suburban folks too cheap to invest in a ferocious mutt, but nevertheless terrified of burglars, displayed on their lawns. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Its wings were wrong, flimsy like cheap cloth. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She helped me move to a cheap, roach-infested flat in a building down the road. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It only gives us the kinds of cheap food made from corn and soy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She would blame Santa, not him, for being cheap.; Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “It was in a rich house. The people were selling it cheap. I wanted it so much. No, I couldn’t play it. But it was so beautiful...It dresses up the whole room.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Bernabe had bought it off the distinguished sculptor for a bottle of cheap tokay twelve years ago. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a modern brick house that could not have been cheap to buy and the name on the gate said cosy nook. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z And once in middle school, when Toby’s dad came home from the Deuce smelling like cheap whiskey. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I'd taken the cheapest apartment I could find, and it showed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z There was no free fuel for its aging factories, no guaranteed market for its often-shoddy goods, and no access to cheap, Soviet-made chemical fertilizers on which state farms had become dependent. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He plonked himself down on the cheap wooden chair at the desk. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Sometimes Ifemelu imagined him in a classroom in the fifties, an overzealous colonial subject wearing an ill-fitting school uniform of cheap cotton, jostling to impress his missionary teachers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But as more and more people buy them, they will eventually get much cheaper. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Seamen were the worst gossips in the world when the wine was flowing, even wine as cheap as this. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But it would have taken more than a few pieces of cheap candy to console April and Melanie. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Rao’s company has pioneered a work flow software program with a standardized format that makes the outsourcing of tax returns cheap and easy. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z First I go down the street to the corner store and ask Mr. Wallace does he have any sort of old cheese or lunch meat he can sell me cheap. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It came from Nanna Marrigan, who said that food served with cheap utensils tasted tinny. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z A dollar for afternoon dreams is expensive and cheap. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Which is still way more than I’m going to make today, she thought, since the whole neighborhood has already filled up on cheap lemonade. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Black life in South Africa had never been so cheap. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Proud men might shout that they would sooner die free than live as slaves, but pride was cheap. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Look, senora, buy this, it’s cheap. Buy this, buy this, senora. How much will you give me?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They were printed on cheap tan-colored paper with the most lurid paper covers, and they ranged across a wide variety of subjects. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She must have got them cheap some time and put them all by for me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Gatsby's father, a solemn old man very helpless and dismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Couldn’t you see? His face is a funny color. He must be using the cheap ones with no sunscreen. What kind of man bleaches his skin, biko?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But meals were nicer; and as for sweets, I won’t tell you how cheap and good they were, because it would only make your mouth water in vain. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I pick out a single yellow rose in a plastic vase because I know Erin likes yellow and the arrangement is the cheapest they have. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We hired the cheapest lawyer we could find and went to the Merits Hearing armed with this new strategy. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Forty floors of cheap windows and a lobby with a guard who slept most of the night. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Eventually the work broke the crippled—it always did—and those in a state of unreason were sold off cheap or took a knife to their own throats. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hubbard was travelling with the minimum of luggage—a hat box, a cheap suitcase, and a well-burdened travelling bag. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom wanted to go to a restaurant, but Dad found out it was cheaper to order a precooked turkey, gravy, stuffing, and sides from the grocery store. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He was tight with his money, but when it came to that kind of thing, he wasn’t cheap, I’ll say that for him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And I know that the Alcatraz apartments are cheap compared to the cost of apartments in San Francisco. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In his sagging eyes we found the language we’d been searching for, a language more eloquent than the cheap bead necklaces of words my mother offered. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Like he’s a little old man dressed in a cheap suit. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z But inside it was always the same cheap stuff. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good Norvelt people wouldn’t be suggesting that the old ladies are being knocked off like this is some kind of cheap murder mystery,” Dad said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the morning I woke up early and packed all my belongings into a bunch of cheap nylon bags I had bought from a street vendor a few days before. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “Let us be thought over-much plain and simple, even bare, rather than gaudy, flashy, cheap and meretricious. Let us manifest the taste of gentlemen.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But big talk was cheap in wartime Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in August when they gave me a lecture, a cheap L’il Abner suit, and a small amount of money, and I walked out of the gate. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Working women, “Yoo Hoo Girls” in the local vernacular, hung out the upstairs windows of cheap hotels and dance halls and even the fire department, calling out to the men on the street below. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Just before the scene, I thought about Sam, and I thought that if I touched her in that way on stage and meant it, it would be cheap. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z In the early colonial period, when settlements remained relatively small, indentured servitude was the dominant means of securing cheap labor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Finally we ate at another cheap burrito spot and went into Ross Dress for Less to buy some new gear. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z And how I got twenty-two cream puffs for two dollars and eighty cents less than I should have—plus two more free, since they come cheaper by the dozen. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The problem is that government policies don’t really give us cheap food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Outside the prison walls, just a few feet from the Hudson River, are three low, white buildings that contrast with the rest of Sing Sing in their newness and cheap construction. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That can be the cheapest kind of self- indulgence. You stop that!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On my way home I found a cheap ring in the streets and at once I knew what I was going to do with it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She writes about the huge tomatoes and the cheap bread. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The $1.60 a day I was paying for my steer’s meal may seem cheap—but it doesn’t include all the costs of the industrial farm, not by a long shot. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He’d been cool with us at first, but Stan had warmed him up fast, telling him what we were up to, stressing our desire for the cheapest shirts available—any color, any size, any vintage. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Dennis kept poking around till he found an empty building that was cheap near Red Hook. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I stare at the cheap replica of The Last Supper next to the cabinets. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Finally they reached the Colosseum, where a dozen guys in cheap gladiator costumes were scuffling with the police—plastic swords versus batons. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The thing is small, made of cheap plastic that has been painted to look like metal. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Even when we offered them for a cheaper price, we were unable to get buyers. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It showed an airplane flying over the rooftops, and a cheap fare to Boston, under the slogan, “We Bring the World to You.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z It’s possible that I had been stopped in the market by a box of cheap stockings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z For some reason, in my fever dream he’s clutching a cheap chrome trophy. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As François’s whip backed him up, Buck found it to be cheaper to mend his ways than to retaliate. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z They work dirt cheap and don’t, Auntie Buzz says with a happy smile, belong to a union. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s crammed every inch of our suitcases with cheap sneakers and tacky clothing from the Latino stores on Fourteenth Street. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z After lunch, business would die down, and that’s when we’d get our lunch, usually the cheapest thing we could afford, like a smiley with some maize meal. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It made Hazel’s look like a toy built from a cheap kit. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She was stupid to think she could patch this thing together; stupid to think there’d be nice motels and cheap B&Bs along the way. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “You got good weed, though, and the movies were mad cheap.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z We finally found a cheap, rundown motel on Campillo Street, a few blocks from the border. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I should buy one of those cheap magazine subscriptions and say, “Yeah, I pay a bill, and what?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “It’s a perfect cheap place for a date.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I threw a glass ashtray, a fairly cheap one which didn’t break. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He transformed Yakov’s death into cheap, pulpy entertainment with his lurid descriptions. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z My mother was barefoot and I was wearing cheap flip-flops, my only shoes, which I had repaired with plastic bags fashioned into straps. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Then a boom sounded overhead—the exact kind of feedback boom a cheap, quickly built microphone would make when it was switched on. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z We did pretty well, considering the lukewarm temperature of the liquor and the piles of cheap pizza it was following after. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z And this made women buy the cheap clothes, because they thought they could look as pretty as I. It was at this shop, working like a peasant, that I met Clifford St. Clair. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The cheap glass body broke off and fell to the ground, leaving me holding its handle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Auntie Fatima marches around the table clockwise, making a sample bag to show us what we are aiming for: a muddle of cheap, kitschy candy. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “No wonder you got them so cheap,” Mr. Brown said, laughing. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z That world of grocery stores, walk-up flats, cheap restaurants, poolrooms, bars, storefront churches, and pawnshops seemed to hold a natural lure for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He saves a few pesos for the next day and uses all of his money to buy crackers, the cheapest thing that will fill his stomach. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Natalie doesn’t like it either. She doesn’t like it one bit,” I say, although I know this is a cheap shot. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I just wait there for him, taking down shots of whiskey and whatever they offer me that’s cheap. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Any serious politician will realize that under present day conditions in the country, to seek for cheap martyrdom by handing myself to the police is naive and criminal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "But whatever you need done, I'm sure I could hook you right up. And for cheap, too." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Barack drove four hours to Springfield on Monday nights and checked into a cheap hotel where a lot of the other legislators stayed, usually returning late on Thursday. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The guy he’d bought the radio from said he was selling it cheap on account of him moving to an oil field in Oklahoma and not wanting more stuff to haul. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Calista said it was the best one, that they had all the best stuff for cheap. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z There is a cheaper and better way to remove crabgrass than to attempt year after year to kill it out with chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Men crowded into restaurants lit by flickering kerosene lamps and sat down to eat cheap steaks and drink stale beer at tables that were not more than pine planks resting on two sawhorses. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I think Dad was just too cheap to afford a divorce, so he splurged on a fancy hotel, someplace that probably has terry-cloth robes and heart-shaped good-night chocolates. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z So I started walking way over east, where the pretty cheap restaurants are, because I didn't want to spend a lot of dough. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z They found a cheap motel just outside Chicago and then, as soon as it was light, drove their huge Ryder to Richton Park. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A moment of cheap symbolism only, and then I have to bow to the strict rules of realism, which is to say: they can’t see a thing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t mention that it was a long time ago, near the water’s edge, when I was little and Lolo bought us those cheap masks and flippers from Walmart. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z FOR WEEKS, the Colonel and I had relied on charity to support our cigarette habit—we’d gotten free or cheap packs from everyone from Molly Tan to the once-crew-cutted Longwell Chase. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I sneak down to Madrina’s apartment, where the door is unlocked and it’s completely empty, but her scent still lingers in the air—cigar and sage smoke, Florida water, incense, and cheap perfume. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Each Christmas, black families would celebrate by taking children of all ages to the Indian place on First Avenue to be outfitted with cheap garments, and some, the extremely lucky ones, with sneakers or shoes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After patching up my leg, I took every bit of rainy-day money I had saved and bought five pints of dreg, a cheap, foul liquor strong enough to blister the inside of your mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Fear that a cheap casket will expose your grandmother to a terrible underground fate. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Some cheap rich guy. Maybe that’s how rich guys stay rich.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Intrigued at the cheap price, the man walked around to the other side of the horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The economic changes making material goods cheaper have forced businesses to seek out new opportunities so that they now market to groups they once ignored. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Then she very neatly folded up the wrapping, though it was just cheap, ordinary material. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Don’t let me catch you doing such a cheap thing again! At your age, the idea!” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The cape looks store-bought and expensive, as it has a silver clasp and the material is much heavier than what might be used to make a cheap Halloween costume. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘It was only a cheap one,’ I said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Shopping around for the cheapest policy, a process that had been convoluted and time-consuming, was suddenly made simple. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “You do not believe me, so you must give me the necklace. I will not let her buy you for such a cheap price.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When they took a break, they needed a quick, cheap jolt of energy—which came in the form of sweet tea and cookies. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There were families sheltered in cheap tent trailers, aging hippies in Day-Glo vans, Charles Manson look-alikes sleeping in rusted-out Studebakers that hadn’t turned over since Eisenhower was in the White House. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re dressed in fine suits and drinking the sort of whiskey that doesn’t come cheap. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In the next cell, the boy—Jackson—made a noise, a kind of catcall, that caused the moment to seem silly and cheap. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Dreading the thought of spending another night in some cheap hotel if I could not get a room at the Y, I considered hiding in the church and sleeping there in one of the pews. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of them wore cheap felt three-cornered hats and frontier shirts that tied at the collar. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z I purchased my ammo in bulk, but it still wasn’t cheap. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She was standing in the aisle with all the cheap dinnerware, looking bored while her mom turned over a package of plastic silverware. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z It was cheap—Maya could tell by the label—which for some reason upset her even more. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Walking to school and eating cheap sandwiches while talking about whatever was a highlight for me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z At a public access terminal in a Miami library, she found a cheap apartment and paid the deposit electronically. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, as soon as she opened it, he started complaining about how cheap and small it was, and how she deserved better. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The moon was behind a cloud and, sitting out in the blackness of the yard, she could still smell that cheap vapor-heavy scent of local gin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He stole a pair of cheap trousers, a white shirt, black shoes, black hat, and an oilskin raincoat, and he tried on each article for fit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Even her professors were a little wary of her—her bizarre, impractical building plans, presented on cheap brown paper, her indifference to their passionate critiques. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With no picture, the card looks rushed and cheap. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z However, demand was fully re-established in the decade 1600-1609, and not just for the new more complex commentaries such as that of Clavius, published in fat quartos, but also for cheap octavo editions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It is better to be without the seed than bereft of the land in which to plant it. Seed is cheap, it can be bought. I can earn a few rupees, or perhaps my sons...” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who were failures, near death, didn’t like working, bad with money, or cheap politicians were specifically not welcome, the same pamphlet said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a Quonset hut. They had a lot of them left over after World War II. Some of the citrus farmers bought ’em up cheap, as war surplus.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She pushed her suitcase into the open top—it barely fit—and banged it through the cheap Venetian blind. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Believe me, I wouldn’t use this for a cheap, twisted pickup line.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I looked at the hot dog man, the cheapest thing around—you wouldn’t get away from him without forking over three or four bucks. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “Filth, filth, filth, from morning to night. I know they’re poor but they could wash. Water is free and soap is cheap. Just look at that arm, nurse.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa had sense enough to know how cheap a linthead would work. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Myriad has been accused of creating a monopoly, since no one else can offer the test, and researchers can’t develop cheaper tests or new therapies without getting permission from Myriad and paying steep licensing fees. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Brick was right about that much—applying to college isn't cheap, let alone actually going. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “It is cheaper to buy off foes with food and gifts.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He wore a cheap dragon necklace and carried around a staff. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He don’t wear that cheap stuff that hurts your nose like some boys do. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z Thin china plates were crammed next, to piles of old books, and pictures in tarnished silver frames lay next to cheap paper masks. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I found a cheap room in a kind of boardinghouse and stayed the night. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Mopane worms are literally the cheapest thing that only the poorest of poor people eat. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She had a cheap phone and the internet was slower than smoke signals, but she searched anyway. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “The email that was sent out last night was cruel and cheap, and could be considered criminal if reported to the authorities,” Headmaster Clarkson continued. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Most of the other kids had to wear cheap plastic mittens that would start to crack up after two or three snowball fights or one real cold day. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tea,” which had to be transported from Asia, and “sugar brought from the West Indies ... compose a drink cheaper than beer.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Within four days he had set up a small company that was selling cheap plastic ballpoint pens specially imprinted with the word frindle. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "I've known broads like that all my life. She wants to be artsy and has settled on being cheap. I can tell I won’t be getting a tip out of her." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “A taxi is expensive. The bus is cheaper. It’s only twenty cents each. We’ll take the bus.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Or the offer for a cheap price on a cruise. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Mostly just bottles of water or the cheap carnival masks that you could buy on any street comer. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z It was that cheap because it was infested with hornets, had no toilets, and was ill-configured. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He had decorated his waiting room with goldfish and one of the finest suites of cheap furniture. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Here’s an example: my English teacher, Ms. Hardwick, is a wolf in cheap clothing. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z With customers able to instantaneously find the cheapest policy, the more expensive companies had no choice but to lower their prices. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Ten minutes before we closed, I picked up the cheapest laptop BJ’s offered, came to a hundred and eighty bucks cash with my employee discount. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z My avatar needed a stronghold, and I didn’t want any neighbors, so I’d bought the cheapest planetoid I could find—this tiny barren asteroid in Sector Fourteen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I crept along, walking a southern walk in southern weather, closing my eyes from time to time against the dazzling reds, yellows and greens of cheap sport shirts and summer dresses. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I was also thinking that, as cooler observers around me had been cautioning, it would probably be saner, cheaper, and easier for Jesse to try for the University of Illinois in the fall. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You shouldn’t tell nobody how cheap you got it,” warned the woman. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth was hunched over her sewing machine, intent on getting a new dress ready for the Christmas season, and it is yet another green gown, cheap and frail. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Please? A used piano is definitely cheaper than a brand-new one.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z As the era of cheap, abundant energy drew to a close, poverty and unrest began to spread like a virus. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “True,” he said, reassuring me of his ignorance, “but strings are cheap.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “How do you fellows ever expect to get ahead, trying to work with cheap equipment?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember the cheap, slightly clinical feeling it gave me, and recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than this. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Before I walked back outside, I pulled the Made in America tag out of the collar, so people could see this was not some cheap knockoff from Mozambique. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “I am glad I bought a cheap dress then,” Caroline said, laughing. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Most of the migrants were farmers, and real estate offices were flooded with inquiries about the availability of cheap acreage near Seattle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z That feller out in Dee-troit’s making cars so cheap that soon every working man can have one. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I give it to you so cheap, you should come back next time you buy a hat. But don’t expect such bargains next time.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If where you stand is in agribusiness, processing cheap corn into forty-five different McDonald’s items is a great thing. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She was only living in Montana in a cheap trailer house because I had gone to school in Reardan. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Likewise, insurance policies with broad coverage which compensates for any mishap are apt to be cheaper in the long run than insurance for a particular disease or a particular trip. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Oreos, those nasty wafer things that taste like dirty air, and those cheap strawberry cookies. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I don't know that I've ever felt so cheap, but I rationalized it by reminding myself that it wasn't my fault this person was trapped. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “It’s why no one ever wants the center unit. Workmen coming and going whenever and no second bath. But the rent’s considerably cheaper.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z "The grownups all gave us way more. 'That's too cheap!' they said. 'It's such a hot day and you're working so hard. Here, take a dollar. Keep the change.' It was crazy!" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z It was a cheap hotel, the kind where you always are thinking about urban legends. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Modern Asians who want work elephants find it much cheaper to capture them in the wild and tame them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s good to know that something is cheaper than my time, or that in the hierarchy of the company’s values I rank above Windex. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only a saloon, I learned later, but it seemed terrible to me: It reeked of vomit and cheap liquor and stale sweat. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z We couldn’t be calling out like vendors working the cheap seats. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because it’s way more fun to sneak around than to be out in the open in a cheap apartment.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Everything in his house seemed shoddy and cheap. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z They’d wrapped their gifts in something Mama had bought for very cheap in the village: it was “cloth” that seemed to also be paper. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The last thing I’d see before closing my eyes would be the cheap statue of Mary aglow next to my bed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He stops what he’s doing, dropping his arms so that the metal sandwich board pops with cheap exasperation, and groans at me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z But I got off cheap considering how big the guy was. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I sold my watch and scouted for cheaper rooms; I found a rotting building and rented an apartment in it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am sure it’s fine, mi’jo. It’s probably cheap kerosene,” he answered as he continued hammering. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Nsukka is a little patch of dust in the middle of the bush, the cheapest land they could get to build the university on,” Kainene said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Just as Lawrence had warned Sproul that the cyclotron diaspora was bound to end Berkeley’s monopoly on cheap grad-student labor, it was now ending Berkeleys monopoly on cyclotron technology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Tacky, cheap, and boring. Honestly, Ephialtes. You have no sense of style.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Sooty, cheap lace curtains hung at the window. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “I know I need to get out of here, but it’s served its purpose. It’s safe and cheap. It’s not a bad place to get our bearings.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Watching Nikhil sign the receipt, she feels cheap all of a sudden, irritated that they have to leave such a generous tip though there had been no real reason to fault the waiter’s performance. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She had even bought some of them, but mostly they were cheap paperbacks that had been thrown away by tourists. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z No day to wreck a life already splintered like a cheap windowpane, but Violet, well you had to know Violet. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know that. How much are they paying for cheap perfume?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Big agribusiness corporations, the same ones that need cheap corn for their mills, helped write the very laws that set farm policy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z On his feet were cheap, low-cut civilian shoes which he had bought for his father’s funeral. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He points downtown at a building just past the cheap pizza place: Montego’s Discount Warehouse, advertising its tremendous deals with a waving plastic banner. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I know the world of pirated things—stolen videogames have no value because it’s cheaper and less risky to copy them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z My own family would be living in the same cheap apartment building as the other Japanese who worked at the hatchery. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Just like the whites in Natal, we want the cheap labor but are reluctant to offer those same workers and their children a home in our country. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z One of those cheap plastic white fans sat on the sill, spinning, circulating hot air from outside, inside, and from inside back out. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z She knows she can hire us for cheap. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Not the cheap one—the one we get when things are serious. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He would also drink beer or Half and Half, a cheap wine drink. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The music is tinny and crackly—partly because of the cheap sound system—but I still like it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was a cheap publication, aimed at minor gentlemen and farmers, the sort of thing that is used for lighting fires once it becomes obviously outdated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As maritime compasses became cheaper and more widely available, instructions on how to make your own would have become increasingly irrelevant. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Also took him to the vet. Your dog needed shots and medicine for worms. Wasn’t cheap.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “Cats are cheap; look in your Sidney’s catalogue.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The smell of hair- spray and perfume, of cheap cigars, and the slow ticking of watches. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The government says it wants you to eat healthy, then it makes sure that the cheapest calories in the supermarket are the unhealthiest. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes, we had collard greens, too, which were common and cheap. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Other crates were full of cheap plastic gladiator swords. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It is actually cheaper to eat high-calorie, fatty, processed foods than whole foods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Dupont is cuffed to a cheap dining chair in the center of the room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It had irked Cole, watching his sports gear, including his dirt bike, snowmobile, bicycle, skis, and even his helmet, all sold through a newspaper ad Hke some junk at a cheap garage sale. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I picked out the cheapest sandwich on the menu. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z It isn't important, I know, but I hate it when somebody has cheap suitcases. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “Don’t nobody want no cheap home brew. The Depression’s over,” Hagar said. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The uniforms of the new cadets are stiffer and cheaper than his own; no longer do they have access to live ammunition for marksmanship. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Prices were cheap: fifteen cents for a large opossum hide, twenty-five for a good skunk hide. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was called out for wearing cheap clothes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It was pat and cheap, and I must have shown my anger because Alice wanted to know what was wrong. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The kilowatts are a lot cheaper than your valuables. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The glucose corn syrup wasn’t as sweet as sugar, but it was cheap. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Bakers began frosting their cakes with plain sugar—it was cheaper than luck and just as sparkly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z For general cleaning, the kind a custodian would do in a high school, you’d go with a much gentler, cheaper agent, diluted bleach. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Is it best to let owners set rules, which is likely to give all of us cheaper coal, or to have the government set standards, which is more likely to protect workers and the environment? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z My mom didn’t even have a big nose, but the two of them were down to cheap shots by then, and my mom ran to the bedroom, where she shut herself away all afternoon. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The Americans wanted cheap sugar and to be able to buy it anywhere, but they had no voice in Parliament. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z This would guarantee sales for the drug companies and motivate them to produce the drugs at cheap prices. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Conditions on the potato farms in the Bethal area, where black prisoners were often taken to relieve the overcrowded jails in Johannesburg and provide cheap labour for white farmers, were described as inhuman. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Another nice thing about the hood was that it’s super cheap. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Mama wants to keep every single thing: baby clothes, our drawings from kindergarten, our cheap Barbie doll knockoffs. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z With guns so cheap and so easy to get, the standard criminal has no incentive to fill out a firearms application at his local gun shop and then wait a week. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z To him, I am the cheap pair of sunglasses you buy on vacation because you know you won't care if you break or lose them. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It would be fun and a lot cheaper. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z She too was dressed in an outfit similar to the man’s, except hers had a few cheap embroideries. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She got it cheap because it wasn’t well. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We each got a couple cheap shirts and some different kicks and Rondell got a bigger sweatshirt, one that fit him better. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “I always buy that wine for you because vou ask me to, but it is cheap stuff and not very nice.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The boats are cheap, graceless, clumsy affairs, as much out of place in what people are calling the ‘Court of Honor’ of the Exposition as a cow in a flower garden.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The smaller spiral-shelled snails were cheaper, piled high in baskets, but she could not buy them, could not think of them as food; they had always been, to her, playthings for village children. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She comes in and we drink cheap beer or wine or watch a movie or all three. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z "This is no time for cheap sarcasm, Brother," the brother with the pipe said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Here people walked fast to juggle the dimes, to make a deal, to find cheap liver or a tomato that was overripe. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They were walking down the block, coming from the corner store, Noodles ripping paper off cheap dime candy and tossing it on the sidewalk. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z They made it clear they were willing to financially support my fencing career, which was a commitment in itself, because fencing was not cheap. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She was friendly but practical, and she had lots of cheap things to suggest, like baths with Epsom salts and even feeding the chicken some olive oil. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z I opened the door of the mosque and found myself inside a cheap Alhambra. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I took him to a manufacturers’ outlet where we bought a supply of cheap imperfect “seconds”—shirts, underwear, cheap rings, watches, all kinds of quick-sale items. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When he went into the back to get another, cheaper searchlight, 1 said to Violet, “What next?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It looks so flat, a cheap, cruddy drawing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He invented a part of a threshing machine, better, cheaper, and more efficient than any in existence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But when the girl asks, I say coffee, because I’m cheap. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He found a woman with flaccid breasts, affectionate and cheap, who calmed his stomach for some time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But eleven were just spam — which would have been great if I had been seeking a cheaper mortgage or a way to “lose that weight fast!” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Even cheap paper chains were impressive when you had eleven hundred kids stringing them. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It's like a cheap hotel—you stay until you've got enough money to leave. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a tradition among the ancients that things were very cheap in Hell. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Here is the great secret, the great mystery to an immigrant’s success, the dwindle of irredeemable hours beneath the cheap tube lights. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The cheap pulp tales enlarged my knowledge of the world more than anything I had encountered so far. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If a shoemaker’s shoes were not bringing in enough money, he could make better ones — or cheaper ones — or bellow out the virtues of his shoes in a louder voice. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The house was ugly, full of cheap furniture and cheaper paintings of horses and saints. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The old adage “Talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer” didn’t apply to Bobby since he had two high-profile lawyers working for him pro bono. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, it was a cheap shot,” I say, still shouting. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I was like, “This is a crummy hotel,” but Marty was all, “Unit, this is where I stayed last time. It’s like meg cheap, and all the staff are made from a crystalline substance.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I breathe in and pretend that I’m taking in my mother’s scent—baby powder and cheap perfume. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I knew enough to say baroto, the cheapest fare, but I couldn’t figure out how to ask for the colored car and he didn’t say nothing either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hitler’s plan was to keep them blockaded and wait till everyone dropped dead; it would be cheaper and easier than fighting to get into the city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He said they could go see the falls just as good from her house as from the hotel, and a whole lot cheaper. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Anker’s was low-class enough so that the drinks were cheap, but high-class enough so that you didn’t have to worry about someone picking a fight or throwing up on you. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The rich and the poor, who are generally thought to live in a state of harmonious interdependence—the one providing cheap labor, the other providing low-wage jobs—can no longer coexist. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex’s cheap leather hiking boots were neither waterproof nor well insulated. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z You were considered in-state, which meant acceptance was more likely and tuition was cheaper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Seed was also cheap, allowing any Malawian to grow tobacco to sell. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The shop was always crowded with black men and women pawing over cheap suits and dresses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z That night I stopped in a liquor store and bought a half gallon of the cheapest rotgut on the shelf, just as Dad had requested, then took a taxi down to the Lower East Side. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He lighted a cheap African cigarette and glanced at me. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them makes a cunning decision to get a cheaper one so he can have two. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Talk is cheap. They want you to walk your talk.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z "This is my office. This is what put that flat screen out there, and this is what's gonna get you and him a haircut for cheap," Black boasted. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Expecting postings in the lower Hudson Valley, my classmates had begun looking before graduation for cheap, small apartments they could share. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the first appearance of Lawrence’s method for building the world’s first great Big Science laboratory: the remorseless exploitation of cheap graduate-student labor, a resource he would soon have in surfeit. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On the floor lay a soiled undergarment of cheap silk a little too pink, from a half open bureau drawer dangled a single stocking. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His hands were huge, stained, and calloused, and he was dressed in a cheap white-linen suit. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Midnight snack is Wheat Thins and Monterey Jack, accompanied by cheap white wine on ice and whatever AMC has to offer. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z My industrial organic dinner certainly wasn’t cheap, considering I made it from scratch. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z All he had done was buy a cheap farm from the government. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys wore cheap, garishly colored double-breasted suits. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Computers are cheaper and less greasy, but eternally evolving. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I bought everything at Dyess Air Force Base. Everything is cheap for a military widow. No taxes.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He sought out the cheapest taverns and turned the stories of the men over in his mind as he scratched at lice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Every time I asked her the simplest of tax questions, for example, she could turn the conversation around and make it seem as if I were too cheap to pay for her legal advice. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But I end up with a bunch of the cheaper properties, so we trade money back and forth. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z I tilt my head down in shame, look at the worn, shaggy orange rug that was too cheap to pass up at a garage sale. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “This one is the cheapest. You swallow the pills and they take pictures as they go down.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a cheap souvenir, the kind tourists bought along East Stave, but it had seemed to please her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Mrs. Dalai lifted the drape of Boori Ma’s sari, a cheap white weave with a border the color of a dirty pond. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Sneaky’s mom and mine always tell us to stay away, even though P.J.’s has the cheapest candy and ice cream bars. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z But Felix’s favorite vehicle was the cheapest—a fully loaded silver Range Rover. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Your soft drink or hamburger may be cheaper, but that’s because taxpayers have already paid for part of it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Audrey and I are on my front porch, drinking cheap alcohol, as usual. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He was so cheap he turned the hot water heater down to tepid. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He was robbing these folks blind, charging them a hundred percent markup on his cheap goods, and he was worried about them stealing from him! The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “War turns men into beasts. It’s cheaper to shoot a boy than to feed him.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The gaudy frames of the glasses were cheap, drawing attention to features that needed no heavy emphasis. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d find some way to let her know she wasn’t a cheap something in my eyes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Crab eaters are used as laboratory animals because they are common, cheap, and easily obtained. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Moving from house to house, once even staying in a cheap motel for a few months. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z But there was so much on the Maple Hill side, it was really ridiculous—like “Live cheaper in the country” and “The Chrises” and “Could live on government pension without Mother working.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z While the terms of partnership were being drawn up, he stayed at a cheap lodging house on Fish Street. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can get pretty good cards in there really cheap.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z These numbers show why people with limited money to spend on food spend it on the cheapest calories they can find. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Water under the bridge,” Burnside says with a cheap wave of the hand, his retirement-earned gold watch and medical ID bracelet jingling together. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Then, I got a cheaper room at Mrs. Fisher’s rooming house which was close to the YMCA. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Will sat on the side of one of the pedal boats and kicked off his shoes, his cheap sneakers that were coming apart and cramping his hot feet. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was convenient to keep him close to us; it was nice and cheap. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Not the greatest specimen,” Mack says, “but I got her cheap from this bankrupt circus out west. They had her shipped over from Africa. Only had her a month before they went bust.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Another stick of pigeon that Nailer offered around to the group, a pack of hand-rolled cigarettes, a bottle of cheap liquor from Jim Thompson’s still, a thick silver earring, wide bored. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z With the addresses this old woman gave me, I found a cheap apartment on Washington Street. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie and Neeley wore their everyday clothes. little Tilly’s mother, in honor of the day, had dressed her up in a cheap but fancy lace dress trimmed with dark pink ribbon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am not hiding Jews. I’ve only bought cheap curtains from people who don’t need them anymore.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z In early June, as Seabiscuit was being humiliated in a cheap stakes race in New Hampshire, Granville finally lived up to expectations by winning New York’s Belmont Stakes, the final jewel in the Triple Crown. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The horse had spent most of his career in the claiming or cheap allowance ranks, and the most accomplished trainer in America had given up on him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Peddlers had come off the street to tempt the girls with ribbons and cheap jewelry. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z But above all they contain a bottomless reserve of cheap labor. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He says, “This hotel is very cheap, ma cherie. The innkeeper behind the desk said our room was forty francs a night but only twenty francs if we made our own bed.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I noticed she was wearing a cheap ring, the adjustable kind that children buy at any street comer from the candy vendors. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The movie camera will shortly be put to use. That harmonica was rather cheap.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Her cheap cherry body spray fills my nose and mouth. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Why not just buy a post note and switch out fresh horses all the way? Faster and cheaper.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But that probably meant it was cheap, so I didn’t say it. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Key West was so broke that they let the inmates go home for supper because it was cheaper. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z They get drunk on wine or something cheap like that. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As the door’s cheap lock gave way, the stranger hauled himself through the window. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “I’ll bet you my whole store it’s a matter of time before everyone starts buying cheap fiddle-faddle from SmartMart rather than paying a little more for something from their own neighbors.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Do you think I could look at art schools in California? Maybe some of them are still accepting late applications. Plus, California is cheaper than New York.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Mami still rents movies for us at the supermarket since it’s cheap and our internet is slow. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z LiNK moved to Torrance from Washington, D.C., to find cheaper rent and to focus on building a grassroots movement. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Vulgarly put, but what comfort, what untroubled years might flow from these cheap vats. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z We’d found cheap office space in a building on Michigan Avenue and managed to get a load of donated secondhand chairs and tables from a corporate consulting firm that was redecorating its offices. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But I was looking at Schmidt’s hands, really wrinkled, chipped cheap nail polish. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “I am mean and I am cheap. Sometimes I am a coward and often times I’m selfish. I ain’t a beauty to look at. But I am not vile, shameful, base, or depraved!” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They walked together toward Park Street station, past the kiosks that sold cheap belts and handbags. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Helen has a bum foot, which Ted, in explaining her absence one day, blames on the cheap, ill-fitting shoes that, he implies, she perversely chooses to wear. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Yo, deal with this, I said in my head, and when I saw nobody was watching I spit a fat loogie on the cheap plastic frame. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Slave labor was valuable because it produced cheap sugar that everyone wanted to buy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It took them miles out of their way, and cost them two days at the least, but the old man said it was cheap at the price. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We walked and walked, our shoes crunching on the gravel road, the jeep’s engine grumbling beside us like a cheap lawnmower. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Life was cheap; the gun and the knife ruled at night. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The road to the plantation had been cut into the Amazon’s famously poor soil—it was the blaring orange- red of cheap makeup, almost surreally bright against the great dark green leaves of the forest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He restricted his vest-pocket empire of worn, exotic clothing, false perfumes, and cheap jewelry to those places. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Those are much cheaper, and it could work in the short term if I can save up enough for lessons. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z In the morning I went shopping at a discount store and bought a cheap navy blue suit off the rack. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Jimmy stumbled into the living room, the boozy sweat filling the room like cheap cologne. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Oil came cheaper than bulbs, and the flicker of the flame made the dark dance. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z His eyes were bloodshot, and he was sweating cheap booze. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z They were also about five hundred dollars cheaper to build than real cattleguards. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Now it is a divisive national issue, pitting those who welcome cheap labor against those with concerns about border security and the cost of providing social services. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Lots of neighborhoods have cookie-cutter houses, because it’s cheaper for builders to just use the same design over and over again. It doesn’t mean anything.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly it was cheaper to feed corn to cattle, instead of raising them on hay or grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Finally he came in, and we bought a pretty good rod cheap, and two landing-nets. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Maybe you think your own life’s cheap, but you’re risking everyone else here, too.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “So! At last you come in mine store! Is something maybe, other dry-goods stores ain’t got and you come by me? Maybe by other store is dicky penny cheaper but damaged stock, no?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Easy enough, a cheap magician’s trick, and Kaz knew them all. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was cheap, quiet, and on the beach. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Nobody was going to shove a Das girl into the cheap seats. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t come right out and tell folks I was in his store buying cheap food, but he might just pass it along that the Preston family’s in hard times, and suddenly food starts appearing. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually the Reds were granted admission, confined to the cheap seats. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z Through the 1990s, they got smaller and cheaper, and service got better until 1998, when the technology hit a Tipping Point and suddenly everyone had a cell phone. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her secondhand raincoat was slick and smelled like cheap plastic. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In a strange twist, many newspapers mocked Lincoln for the way he eluded the assassins by wearing a cheap disguise as he snuck into Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not the same. But it's cheap. One can will feed you for a week. And it's hot. Good for the winter.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Not cheap cardboard gravestones, but full-on motorized zombies that creep across the driveway by themselves. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Yeah...mind you, it’s a very cheap one,” Ron said. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He bought me cheap gifts: a glass figurine, a prickly brooch of cut glass, a silver- colored cigarette lighter. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “The two girls sell it all on the black market and use the money to buy flashy costume jewelry and cheap perfume.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A few investors bought up tracts of cheap land in Clarkston because of the town’s location, just outside a beltway that encircles the city and offers easy access to the airport and downtown. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Not in such times as these, when land is cheap. Not until better times come.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z More than once, I’ve come home from school to find her searching for cheap flights on her phone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The middle class rather is tempted by the pastoral impulse to deny its difference from the lower class—even to attempt cheap imitations of lower-class life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not want to be skiing back and forth from Thessicher’s farm all day long, so I hung around Sassinoth, and bought a large, good, cheap lunch at one of the hot-shops. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She called One of her friends from Saint Agnes to bake the shower cake cheap. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Every night he hiked up the hill to a place called Shack Town, where he had found a cheap room in a long, rickety shedlike building designed to house single men. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I found a good car for you, really cheap,” he announced when we were strapped in. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z And he would take a roadside attraction, no matter how cheap, how crooked, or how sad, over a shopping mall, any day. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z It’s all very world-class down here, where I used to buy cheap nighties in high school with my tiny clothes allowance, on sale at that and a size too large. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His responsibilities included supervising a large pool of cheap black labor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone sleeping off the night before, but without his boots now, because somebody had taken them to trade for a bottle of cheap wine. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He asked that friend if he’d be willing to trade him a cheap ballpoint pen in exchange for the paper clip. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The pumice rock minefield was dotted with stubborn weeds armed with sharp thistles, which poked up through the cheap layer of thin black plastic under the brick- colored lava bits. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z While the white settlers in Natal were happy to have cheap Indian labor, they were dead set against allowing Indians to live there as equals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I was seated in one of them and given a cheap visor and an even cheaper pair of haptic gloves. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Black life is cheap, but in America black bodies are a natural resource of incomparable value. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Then deliberately he walked to the cabinet and picked up a small, cheap globe of the world that served as a paperweight. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Rivera where to find the cheapest hair salon and the best Goodwill and how to get to the nearest Western Union. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The fact that the Professor sold old and cheap some of the things that Mr. Schmitt sold new and expensive was worth thinking about; but it really didn’t prove anything one way or the other. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z But cheaper merchandise isn’t always better, leaving local entrepreneurs to prove that quality is queen. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Surveying this harvest of shirts and cigarette lighters, expensive machinery and cheap cufflinks, Perry felt elatedly tall— now Mexico, a new chance, a “really living” life. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z A big old radio filled a dark corner, and on top of it was a cheap suitcase phonograph. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Where did all those cheap calories come from? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They were good haircuts too, he boasted, a lot better than I’d get in that cheap barbershop on Scales Avenue. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It was fun then, but now everything was made out of cheap plastic, and you could tell the stuff would break in a minute. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z The low price means there’s plenty of cheap corn for the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It was a cheap little dime store bracelet but I bought it with my own money and I liked it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When times grew lean, even bakers found sellswords cheaper than bread, he reflected. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They were too cheap to rent space at an RV park, so they parked along Highway One near the Indian Key Bridge and camped there for three nights. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Don’t turn your collar up like that. It’s cheap.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was one of those cheap plastic ones that can deflate like balloons. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It means cheap animal feed to produce cheap meat and cheap high- fructose corn syrup for soft drinks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Though I had my driver’s license, I bought a cheap secondhand bicycle so I could ride with her. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z In front of the doll, there are three fresh candles, a pack of cheap cigarettes, an open can of Tecate, a bowl of apples, and a white rose starting to brown at the edges. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But these sojourns on cheap horses were rarities. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s in a wheelchair now,” Charlie continued when I didn’t respond, “so he can’t drive anymore, and he offered to sell me his truck cheap.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But radio is powerful, cheap, fast and simple. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore cheap, printed Terylene bush shirts over his white mundus and the ugliest plastic sandals that were available in the market. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a Tot of makeup and many pieces of cheap jewelry. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The glint of a cheap knife in his boot. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “So you don’t just walk in there and hang around and walk out. And gum’s already cheap.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z People also found it cheaper to feed corn to chickens and hogs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They learned where the cheapest gas station was—at the corner of Lomond and Lee Roads, always one cent less than anywhere else; where the drugstores were and which gave double coupons. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps Providence is deliberately biding its time getting rid of Hitler, since it’s much easier, and cheaper, for the Allies to let the impeccable Germans kill each other off. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She was getting the act cheap, and she had to admit that die bird was very good, a skilled and professional performer who almost made up for the act’s human deficiencies. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “How many cakes? The price of sugar is still high. How about apple bread instead? That’s cheaper to make.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She would go to thrift stores and buy old stuffed animals—faded teddy bears, ratty plush dogs, threadbare rabbits—the cheaper the better. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A fat man with a red beard, Barbarossa had an antiques shop where he sold cheap trash to the tourists, but he also did secret deals with more valuable, and usually stolen, items. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z She asked the new driver to take her to a cheap, locally owned place in town. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It was like a giant game of telephone just to figure out where they could go to get cheap photos taken for their documents, or which of the camp administrators to avoid. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The rooms upstairs proved rather less than grand, however, particularly the cheap ones up on the fourth floor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Of course, as I still had little money, I walked everywhere and sat in the very cheapest seats. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z To find a means to ensure real control over cheaper drugs, Jim enlisted the help of an ally at WHO, a young man who had worked at PIH. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Shawn fingered the thick steel, which I was sure he could tell was not cheap at all. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z How utterly ludicrous those words seem now, perched like a cheap toy on the lip of a grave. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Or maybe it had happened at homecoming while Grace was squeezing a baby out of her body and he danced, wearing a cheap plastic crown. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The shoe stand was in skid row—a street of ancient buildings with cheap rooming houses and bars. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In them, he saw a strong army of cheap labor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z How we could get work there right away, on the local fishing boats, live for mad cheap and meet all kinds of tourist girls from everywhere in the world. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I’d rather pay class by class at community college, and deliver pizza at night while I live cheap in Dad’s house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z If you’ve read this far, you already know the answer—most of them come from cheap corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z With pencil and tablet, I walked nonchalantly into the schoolyard, wearing a cheap, brand-new straw hat. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z For each day that I fail to find cheaper quarters, which is every day now, I am spending $49.95 for the privilege of putting clothes away at Wal-Mart. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I had no real desire to waste my time throwing balls at bottles to win cheap prizes, but Audrey refused to let me spend another Friday night wallowing alone in my room. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “I’m pretty sure this is the cheapest beer you can buy.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It wasn’t cheap, and since it didn’t burn hot, it took a lot to make the wood catch fire. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Hei body’s dumpling plumpness made warm and cuddly what could have looked nasty and cheap, and she was okay, a lonely and pretty gentle woman underneath. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s cheaper to import soap operas from Mexico,” Obiora said, his eyes still glued to the television. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He was eight centimeters taller than me, but he could move so silently sometimes, like he wasn’t walking on the same cheap, groaning floorboards as the rest of us. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It will help to show what Granny meant to Grandpa if I point out that it wasn’t a cheap homemade coffin she was in. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It wasn’t all bad or cheap or hysterical. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The cheap binding, with its dry glue, was beginning to detach from the pages. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Dad found a cheap upright when a saloon in the next town over went out of business, and he borrowed a neighbor’s pickup to bring it home. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “They’re cheap polyester filling. As you used to tell me again and again. When you wanted to make me cry.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s given us cheap corn sweeteners and hundreds of extra calories a day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He hadn’t checked the weather and felt vaguely unsettled about that because the Frog didn’t have any radio gear except a cheap little transistor battery-powered receiver that hardly ever worked right. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Corn-based food does offer cheap calories, if you don’t count the billions the government spends to support cheap corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Bright lights w'ere burning in the kitchen, and he could hear his mother’s cheap radio through the closed window. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The ferry, everyone knows, is the city’s cheapest vacation. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z From Florida to Rhode Island and practically everywhere in between, he was offered in the cheapest claiming races. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Those were cheap, like 50 cents a pop. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “No, no, honey. I do need to talk to you. But I would appreciate some vodka. Nothing fancy, just the cheapest rotgut they have. A pint would be fine. A fifth would be great.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Ruth was stunned by this, but Chrissie just went on: “We like buying them in big batches. It’s always cheaper in the long run. And you’ve always got one handy when it’s someone’s birthday.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom says it’s cheaper, and less mess to clean, to eat fast food. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “It’s ninety percent cheaper to produce than an ordinary chip because the whole thing is sealed in so you don’t need clean rooms for production.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Elliot shows them to me, and I can almost afford the cheapest acoustic one. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It had given her pleasure, buying chocolate bars from the newsstand, cheap bars filled with sugar and chemicals and other genetically modified ghastly things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Our fast food wasn’t cheap—it was free. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The new drink soon became not only cheap but necessary. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Just like the first time she’d made them for the potluck, the tortillas cooked too fast in Henry’s cheap pans. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z On the walls were cheap religious pictures depicting the Devil being slain by the angel Michael. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He did not like the idea of buying a cheap shirt. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Now they both work at Super Discount Fabric on Roosevelt Avenue, a street crowded with immigrants like us looking for cheap things. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z And from a bag she had hidden from Toby, she pulled out a bottle of cheap strawberry wine. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The cheap, stiff bristles hurt his gums, and he spit some blood into the basin. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The fast-food meal seems cheap, but as we have seen, the costs are actually enormous. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Hosting a chat room this large wasn’t cheap, but Aech could afford it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The cheap little thing only lasted another minute before its insides started to melt together. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “I will make Mambutu by tomorrow. I will take you as far as that. For a cheap price.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Sugar lords like Beckford wanted to make sure American colonists would buy only from their islands, and would not be able to look for cheaper sugar elsewhere. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When he returned, he announced, “Mamá, Salvador is thinking of buying himself a motorcycle. Lucky’s found a secondhand one that he can buy cheap.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z And when she brought her feet down on the men, snapping their necks like cheap drugstore straws, they never heard a thing. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Something cheap that could be painted or repaired. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z And even though he is always ranting about politics, he's still a cool dude, and everybody respects him because he has the cheapest cuts in town. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z A plainer gun was cheaper, but Guiteau chose a fancy one because, undoubtedly, it would soon be displayed to the world in a museum. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z "I remember like it was yesterday. We were all of us living over in the tenements in those days, because the rent was so cheap and we were all just starting out." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z These homes are never cheap and often are quite expensive and lavish. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s worth nothing in terms of money—cheap nickel and copper, the necklace part made of plastic. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Madrina, the owner of our building, who lets us rent for mad cheap, has to catch her breath when she reaches our apartment. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I’d have to tell her some girl friend at school bought them by mistake and wanted to sell them cheap or something like that. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “We wouldn’t have to stay in fancy places. We could take the cheapest boats and the lowest class. That’s how our father came here from Ireland. And we could go to Ireland.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He said, “You and your mama were a single lot. See? The girls, they’re cheaper when they’re pregnant. Masters lose some months with her coming to bed, and the baby suckling....” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Maybe. I’d love to find another old Coke machine or something in someone’s bam. Buy it cheap and fix it up on my own.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z They call the midnight movers to haul them to cheaper subdivisions, or seize the equity gains on their homes to move up. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The cheapest cloth we could find cost seventy-nine cents a yard, and you needed more than two yards for a dress. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Against this backdrop, diversity-driven affirmative action programs seem to be the epitome of racial justice purchased on the cheap. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Virgin looked shabby with Her chipped robe and cheap plastic flowers, but Matt wouldn’t have wanted Her to look any other way. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Byrne leads me over to a section filled with bolts of fabric, directing me to the shelf with the cheaper ones. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “It might be cheaper to hire someone, when you figure in the cost of the flight.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Among his other sterling qualities are cheap tickets to the Yucatan. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I buy the cheapest sack of porridge meal I can find at the market, and a little hope pierces my soul like sun through clouds. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It sounds terrible to say it, but I can even get to hate somebody, just looking at them, if they have cheap suitcases with them. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Her face has gone flat white, like cheap wall paint. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “That lot won’t come cheap,” said George, with a quick look at his parents. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Taking Beetle gave her cheap labor and an apprentice too stupid and scared to be any competition. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Is it the ultimate act of letting go of oneself, or a cheap act of self-possession? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z One of the restaurants is this fish place, where the cheapest dish is, like, thirty dollars, and that’s just for a salad. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He gave McCandless em-ployment at the grain elevator and rented him a cheap room in one of the two houses he owned. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t have a clue,” he said, “but you know it won’t be cheap.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The best guest room was shabby and the furniture was cheap, but at least it was clean. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The pen didn’t look like much, just a regular cheap ballpoint, but when Percy uncapped it, it grew into a glowing bronze sword. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Fine. Lydia helped me get some good clothes for cheap.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “He drove a really hard bargain. Gave us next to nothing for all that glass. It’s a good thing Rukku’s favorite food is cheap.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I hear Pop Pop’s voice inside my head, reminding me to order the cheapest thing on the menu “’cause we ain’t Rockefeller.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The old lady said it was cheap, so why was Mama worried? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z We had a nice house with cheap rent. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She grabs the cheapest version and throws it in the cart. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Everything is about scoring polling points, even if the shots are cheap. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Mr. Kugler hasn’t been able to find anyone else to fill the packages, and besides, it’s cheaper if we do the job. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Lastly, prison is hardly a cheap solution: it costs about $25,000 a year to keep someone incarcerated. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It was whitewash, the cheap stuff that is used in cowsheds and stables and hen-houses. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Do you imagine suits like this come cheap?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z And that corn is only cheap if you don’t count all the hidden costs, like the cost of pollution from chemical fertilizers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He had, those many months, been collecting offers for children sold cheap, requests for aid in running down families who had fled their masters. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The closest I ever came was that time at the lake with Ramiro, Carlos’s cousin, who treated me like I was some sort of cheap prize. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Moreover, they would exchange these valuable items for cheap furs of the sort used by Indians as blankets. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Burres, as one of the vendors, had set up some folding tables displaying cheap, mostly secondhand goods for sale, and McCandless volunteered to oversee her large inventory of used paperback books. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But the system only works as long as fossil fuel energy is cheap. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Dressed as I am, in cheap traveling clothes, I seem to have fallen far in the world. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The new national flag flutters there as well, two red bands and a red maple leaf rampant on white, looking like a trademark for margarine of the cheaper variety, or an owl kill in snow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Streams of sunlight shot through Cecile’s cheap curtains and pointed out Delphine, you got a whole lot of work to do. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It is cheaper than mowing, is the cry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All the capers that cheap dye could cut was showing in her hair. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I drew suntanned young giants in white dinner jackets, seated at white tables alongside turquoise swimming pools, toasting each other, rather excitedly, with highballs made from a cheap but ostensibly ultra-fashionable brand of rye whisky. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Ammu had lost the latest of her succession of jobs—as a receptionist in a cheap hotel—because she had been ill and had missed too many days of work. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Before we left Varanasi, Sass purchased a cheap white cotton sari for me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z That undertaker that lays out black folks ain’t none too cheap.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z "The Lord of Light would hold our city walls against a million Dothraki, or so the red priests promise . . . yet why take chances, when their friendship comes so cheap?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The government’s intention in creating the homeland system was to keep the Transkei — and other African areas — as reservoirs of cheap labor for white industry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I went to the office and looked up their records and found that most of them had spent their lives playing cheap vaudeville. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s because if you count the calories, foods loaded with sugar and fat are the cheapest foods in the market. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It wasn’t far from campus, and it seemed like an innocuous enough destination for cheap food and a little change of scenery. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I took a scalding hot shower, worked over my face for the last time, and got dressed in my cheap suit. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Thanks to CAFOs, meat is now so cheap that many of us eat it three times a day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Meanwhile another part of the government is making it cheaper for you to eat more sweets. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He looked at ’em and said, “These ain’t no good for what you planning on doing. You need traveling shackles. I got some you can buy cheap.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Since corn sweetener was now so cheap, why not get people to pay just a few pennies more for a bigger bottle? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As Dolly Par- ton said, “You wouldn’t believe how much it costs to look this cheap.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Store-bought ice cream is cheap, but for Felicia, making ice cream from scratch is part of the ritual that began after her husband left in 1966. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Bykovski stood alone across the road from the Little Store with two cheap suitcases by her side. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The apartments might be bigger and cheaper in other places, but one could never count on their old circle of friends making the long trip to attend a birthday party. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z This is not a belief in prophecy but in the seductiveness of cheap gasoline. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It wasn’t worth the trouble to break them down when wood was so plentiful and cheap that you could just build new ones. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And maybe you’d be lucky enough to cop a cheap feel as the Holy Ghost took over her body. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z You could get everything from fence posts to lambing pens to refrigerators dirt cheap. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I stopped to fill up my brand-new very old car with cheap gas at the broken-down station a mile from the house. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom takes one look at the price of the cheapest option and shouts, “No way, Jose! Abuela only sent you twenty dollars—” It takes all my willpower to not point out Abuela sent forty. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z My mother and my father are not cheap people. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Dill wore a cheap black suit that had belonged to his father. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The starch was cheap and had a nice white color that people thought was “pure.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I put my cheap suitcase on the bed. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Though newly arrived Mexicans often work in industries that rely on cheap labor, like restaurants and construction, they rarely organize. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Her baggy gray pants did not look cheap, and the same went for the tight top that covered her from wrist to neck. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And as much as I think I might want to someday touch her like that, I never want it to be cheap. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I figured Mr. Tuttle was picturing me cut to pieces and himself down at my house trying to settle, cheap, my folks’ claim against the railroad. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Girls can be tough, stuck-up or cheap, mousy or boy- crazy; or they can be brains and sucks and brownnosers, like boys, if they are thought to study too much. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Do you want to poison him with that cheap store cake.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Mrs. Van Hopper, with her cheap views and common outlook, had known I was making a mistake. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There was a moment, just a moment, like the hesitation in a cheap Western movie just before the gunfight starts. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “It’s a cheap brand of Chinese tobacco, and it has an unpleasant taste.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Food was more costly every day, whilst the price of flesh grew cheaper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Rumor also had it that these papists were willing to work for lower wages, and, since the corporations did not subsidize their board and keep, the Irish girls were cheaper still to hire. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Finally, I grab the cheapest one in my size, but even the cheapest one is almost twenty-five dollars. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z They were custom made and there beside the cheap tan brogues of the farmer they had the elegantly slender well-bred appearance of fine gloves. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bible, while a little harder to come by, was cheaper in the long run. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As he ate he felt that they were thinking of the job he was to get that evening and it made him angry; he felt that they had tricked him into a cheap surrender. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t get you a room, okay? I heard you loud and clear. You’re cheap, Pop.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Losing his nights to cheap beer and the nameless heavy metal band setting up in the corner. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Doesn’t it produce cheap food for the American people? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Of course often those places went very cheap—islands didn't suit everybody. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z I saw khakis that were really cheap, only $150, but I didn’t like the stitching, and then I saw them tom and there was blood on them. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s cheap stuff, probably made from those bland sea grapes that grow in ocean water. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z As Grandma said often, nothing good is free or cheap. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The cheapest means of transport to and from Alexandra was the “Native” bus — for Africans only — which at one pound tenpence a month made a considerable dent in my income. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By bowling alleys, by train stations, in small towns on the way to bigger ones, anywhere where real estate was cheap and a lot of cars or people passed through. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It makes even more sense when you realize that those cheap calories reward our instincts for fat and sugar. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She had bought the cheapest car she could find. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Now they wanted to rent an apartment smaller and cheaper but better situated and generally more practical than the present one, which Gregor had found. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z The weed was cheap and burned my throat. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z If we kept to our budget, we believed, we could afford new clothes and shoes and coats, and buy a ton of coal at the cheaper off-season price. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They set it down upon the platform and I looked at the shape of the cheap gray coffin and all I could remember was the sound of his name. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks around my tiny room, taking in the unmade bed, the clothes, both clean and dirty, piled on my desk chair, the blank walls, the cheap furniture. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The cheapest rental in Welch was an apartment over a diner on McDowell Street that cost seventy-five dollars a month, which was out of our price range. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “No chicken breasts today. I got drumsticks. They were cheaper.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Plus, my mom teaches at the university, so the tuition is cheap. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As always, there were overdue bills mixed with throwaway flyers printed with cheap black ink that rubbed off onto his fingers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z My jaw felt stiff, so I opened and closed my mouth like I was chewing on Silly Putty or cheap bodega candy. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Now that he looked more closely, he saw the book was printed on cheap, yellow paper. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “What? Oh, hey, you’re not Jewish, are you? Look, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean that. It was just a cheap shot,” he says. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Cheaper! What is it worth—to be packed in there like cattle? You call that cheap?” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The train tickets wouldn’t be cheap; they needed the money. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Patent-leather shoes with buckles, a cheaper version of which we got only at Easter and which had disintegrated by the end of May. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z My father preferred beer, but Chibuku was cheaper and had the same effect. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She was cooking coconut rice, her apartment thick with spices, a bottle of cheap merlot on her counter, and Nina Simone playing loudly on her CD. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z According to his worn, continuously revised spreadsheet, he and Eric had two weeks left to find work and get their first paychecks before this new life in Chicago crashed like some cheap computer. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While blacks were crowding into disease-ridden slums near downtown, whites were building mansions outside of Durham and enjoying the new luxuries bought with the tremendous profits they earned from cheap labor, black and white. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Letting the flies live, in her view, was the same as buying cat food, only cheaper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “And my break’s only fifteen minutes, anyway, so that would be a really cheap date. You shouldn't date me—I’m obviously terrible at it.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z |
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