Cheapened

Examples

• It can be procured in almost any drug store, and since 1874 a new process in its manufacture has cheapened it in price and placed it within the reach of all. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Although it cost $33,000,000 and required seven years for completion, the labor-saving cableways greatly cheapened its cost and shortened the time of its construction. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The use of electric motors has greatly extended, cheapened, and expedited the street car service. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• And now since 1880, the chemists are pushing aside the vegetable processes, and substituting mineral processes, by which tanning is still further shortened and cheapened. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I have been set down as tainted and should be cheapened to them all the same. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It has so cheapened steel that it now competes with iron in price. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• While the process of manufacture was cheapened, the newer craftsmen wisely held to the art standards of the old masters. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The idea of the crusades was cheapened by their too frequent and trivial use. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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