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11 sentences with 'cheap'

Example sentences and phrases with the word cheap and other words derived from it.


• « Town landlords took advantage of the influx of workers and their families by building cheap housing in which several families often lived in one room. »
• « To better connect with the laity, the Church began to sponsor a counter-propaganda campaign, inspired by the success Protestantism had had with the use of cheap printing. »
• « Written material moved from the form of books, which had been expensive and treated with great care in the early centuries of printing, to mass-market periodicals, newspapers and cheap printing. »
• « The printing press, however, introduced a revolution in ideas. By making the distribution of information fast and comparatively cheap, more people had access to that information than ever before. »
• « In France, the first major newspaper of this type was called Le Petit Journal, an extremely cheap, sensationalist paper that eschewed political commentary in favour of banal, mainstream expressions of popular opinion. »
• « But far from buckling under the pressure of the Continental System, Britain was getting richer, seizing the remnants of the French Empire in the Caribbean and smuggling cheap but high-quality manufactured goods to Europe. »
• « Even with the quality of life struggles of workers, by the late 19th century commodities were simply so cheap to produce that the average person actually enjoyed a better quality of life and could buy things like consumables and newspapers. »
• « For several years before the outbreak of World War I, Hitler lived in Vienna in flophouses, cheap hotels for homeless men, and there he discovered right-wing politics and cultivated a growing hatred of Austria's ethnic and linguistic diversity. »
• « Many skilled workers or craftsmen experienced the factory system as a disaster, bringing with it subjection to harsh work discipline, the degradation of craft skills, long hours, cheap wages and the abuse of young women and children (who worked under the same conditions as adult men). »
• « Just a few decades after the invention of the printing press, cheap printed posters and pamphlets were common in major cities and towns, often shared and read aloud at public gatherings and taverns. Thus, even the illiterate enjoyed greater access to information with the printing press. »
• « Over time, the whole of society was transformed, giving rise to the term "industrial society", in which everything is largely based on the availability of an enormous amount of cheap energy and an equally enormous number of mass-produced commodities (including people, to the extent that workers can be replaced). »

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