His was a mind, unlike that of Clay, Seward, or even Webster, which had never been cheapened by its own exercise.
But, if goods are made cheaply, all consumers gain thereby, and, all people being consumers, all gain so far as they use the cheapened articles.
Immigration has cheapened more than wages in certain lines, it has cheapened life, until the coal barons could say, "It is cheaper to store men than coal.
This invention facilitated and cheapened the cost of printing, and was therefore a valuable addition to the Machine.
During that period of thirty years, very few of the great scientific improvements which have cheapenedproduction had been introduced, although better modes of cultivation unquestionably prevailed.
That most complete invention has not only cheapened paper itself, but it has cheapened the subsequent operations of printing, in a remarkable degree.
These contrivances, and other similar inventions, have not only cheapened books, but have enabled the publisher to give them a permanent instead of a temporary cover, ornamental as well as useful.
These changes have cheapenedall luxuries, that is, have reduced them to common necessities.
For those classes the standard of living has risen faster than steam has cheapened luxuries.
No such difference in the cost of service in opposite directions existed, although a preponderance of empties moving eastward undoubtedly cheapened the service from California.
Great economic advantages, through division of labor and cheapened production, have resulted; but, on the other hand, manifold evils have followed in its train.
Even the purblind people of that day recognized the vanity of the pretended reductions in price by the epithet 'cheap and nasty,' with which they characterized cheapened goods.
Presently, therefore, he finds his wages forced down by as much as the cheaper food supply has cheapened his living, and so finds himself just where he was to start with before the American trade began.
The idea of the crusades was cheapened by their too frequent and trivial use.
They not onlycheapened the idea of the crusades, but they made their tremendous power of excommunication, of putting people outside all the sacraments, hopes, and comforts of religion, ridiculous by using it in mere disputes of policy.
The public bought their former idol at his own cheapened price, and he still remained poor.
But the once overwhelmingly popular author now cheapened himself before the public in almost every practicable way.
The severity of beauty of its etched and paneled walls, the plain elegance of its satinwood fittings, were cheapened with a veneer of vulgarity.
Moreover, the cheapened cost of transportation has admitted to England and the Continent the wheat supplies of our Western States at a low price even after having been carried to transatlantic markets.
It came back to him with a shock that he had said to Becky that the pearls cheapened her.
She felt that she would be cheapened if she decked herself for George.
It is only when it is cheapened to worthlessness for some, and made impossibly dear to others, that it becomes a curse.
Labour in the towns will, no doubt, be considerablycheapened in consequence.
She had cheapened herself, cheapened all women--she could not fly now, not until she had made him see the mistake.
She made him appear at his best, but she cheapened that best by her proximity.
This barn could be still further cheapened by putting hoops, five feet apart, around the studs, and covering with common 1 x 12 boards, put on vertically, as is done in some cases.
The construction could also be cheapened by using drop siding to cover the outside, instead of shingles, which in this case were used over ship lap on the side walls to improve the appearance.
The development in America of the system of "interchangable parts" has greatly simplified and cheapened repairs, and has lengthened the working life of machines; nevertheless their lot is the scrap-heap at last.
We have not only cheapened the suffrage and therebycheapened office for the representative who represents, but we have degraded the civil service until it is more of a disgrace than an honor to be an official.
In the case of the lowest classes of the towns, it is probable that the rise in rents offsets all the advantages of cheapened prices for other commodities.
It was for these men that the monthly grant of cheapened grain was intended.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cheapened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
