Cheapest
[tʃi:pɪst]
Examples
- For a cheap silo boards may be used, though probably shingles are the cheapest in the end. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It is one of the lightest and cheapest of automobiles, runs easily at ten to twelve miles an hour, and is an efficient hill-climber. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Damon, how strange it seems that you could have married her or me indifferently, and only have come to me because I am--cheapest! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I guess the Duchess goes where it's cheapest, unless she can get her meal paid for. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- We kept no idle servants; our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- When the work of actually making communication by insulated wires between places far apart came to be done, much difficulty arose as to the best and cheapest mode of doing it. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It is the cheapest transportation in the world. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The prime cost of grocery goods, therefore, being the same in both places, they are cheapest where the least profit is charged upon them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A great trader purchases his goods always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A costly and elaborate building is no better than the cheapest structure for keeping ice, if care is only taken to have it properly packed, which is very easily done after one knows how. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The cheapest and most unsatisfactory device is known as pocket plugs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I was made in the cheapest market, and have to dispose of myself in the dearest. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
Editor: Margaret