How to Use indie in a Sentence

indie

1 of 2 noun

• See you at the indies next spring.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
• What does that look like on a tight indie like this?
  — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 29 Dec. 2025
• But same goes for those of you who buy books from your local indie.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 14 Sep. 2026
• Is there room for indies and giants?
  — Hillel Italie, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
• You guys parted ways with your label and went indie last year.
  — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025
• The indie’s gotten recent flack for its sub-par wages.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
• But then you’re drawn back to something like this, a low-budget indie.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
• City of God is an indie that broke big in the aughts, and for good reason.
  — Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
• So indies can account for that helpful bump.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
• This is not groovy indie finery; there’s a rock-as-high-art vision at work here.
  — Evan Haga, SPIN, 24 May 2024
• This is the first film ever made as an indie with that kind of budget that just went for it all.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 22 Dec. 2024
• The indie family drama's road to the big screen was a long one.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 12 May 2023
• That should give a sense of the wide range of outcomes that are capable for indies.
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2026
• The low-budget indie movie realm is often where fresh new talent breaks through.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020
• Some of the new titles have been on the smaller-scale, indie-feeling side of things.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Aug. 2021
• There’s more to this soon-to-be monstrous indie hit than postcard vistas.
  — Jonathan Peltz, Wired, 22 Sep. 2021
• Noting a few other indies that have been sticking around.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 10 May 2026
• Most indies reporting so far this weekend are wide.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 14 June 2026
• But the original indie single has a raw, feverish rush of its own.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2021
• For those wanting a more punk, alt-rock and indie feeling Christmas.
  — Lincoln Wright, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2021
• From there, the indie will expand to more locations, with dates to be announced.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
• The soundtrack ranges from indie-pop to R&B to upbeat dance tracks.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• Joe Kye blends indie-rock, jazz, classical, pop, and world folk to create a unique sound.
  — oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2021
• For Death Cab, the return to an indie is a homecoming of sorts.
  — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2026
• American indie band Cage the Elephant will open for all the shows.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
• What about Once, that charming indie about a pair that spends a week in Dublin writing songs about their love?
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
• And a little bit of All forms of rock ‘n roll, alternative, indie, and rock.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 21 June 2024
• He's received more experience in the indies since then.
  — Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
• Wang still can’t believe all this happened to him — that this outsider had become the toast of the indie movie business.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 24 July 2024
• The result is a sound that leans more indie-rock than Americana, but is informed by a hefty dose of soul.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2021

indie

2 of 2 adjective

• Rodriguez will also star in the indie film that she is set to direct and produce.
  — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026
• The back-to-school feeling of popping into an indie bookstore for a brand new notebook.
  — Sarah Allard, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2026
• LaBute’s latest feature is a return to his low-budget, indie roots.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
• And the megastudio will start a $5 million annual fund to bankroll indie movies.
  — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
• The indie book store is one of several stores transforming the area and namechecked by Time Out.
  — Gage Goulding, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2026
• See and shop vintage toys and collectibles, modern retail products and indie toy companies.
  — Mary Caldwell, AJC.com, 22 Sep. 2026
• The indie film is about a pair of Scottish rappers who pretended to be American to get a record deal.
  — Isabelle Farina, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
• The experience has also taught Caster to adapt to a changing indie film landscape.
  — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2026
• In 2019, Max Winkler was an indie film director about to level up.
  — William Earl, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
• One of country’s biggest stars will make his way there, while a rising indie star is set to take over the T-Mobile Center this month.
  — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
• Many niche fragrance brands—also called indie fragrance brands—put a lot of care and artistry into their formulations and view perfume as a true art, which is reflected in their scents.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 28 Sep. 2026
• The rise of indie brands has allowed a new wave of brilliant female founders to disrupt traditional markets and scale successful businesses on their own terms.
  — Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
• Because among indie content makers looking for elusive financing, there’s more debate on whether a project is a film or a TV series?
  — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
• Justin Baldoni is stepping into the ring alongside former co-star and longtime friend Gina Rodriguez for a new indie film.
  — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
• An indie filmmaker can demonstrate that a movie has paying fans, while a distributor weighs the cost of reaching those customers against its other business interests.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2026
• Earlier this year, the company hired Sam Zimmerman from Shudder to oversee its indie slate.
  — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026
• Where once indie film producers looked to streaming platforms for financing and acquisitions, the streamers now have their own original film pipelines.
  — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
• Ask any indie-rock band that spent time on the road in the Nineties about its favorite bygone Chicago music venue and Lounge Ax will likely be at the top of the list.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026
• The ideological component of the indie world is important to its audience — and runs counter to how financiers such as private equity tend to do business.
  — Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2026
• B-side compilations are a hallowed tradition in indie rock—countless alternative bands have tucked away great music on collections like this for diehard fans to discover.
  — Charles Moss, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2026
• The indie-pop artist is booked to play arenas on her The Powerlines Tour of Australia in early 2027.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2026
• Individually, the songs on Beat were largely recognizable in the broader indie rock world—post-rock and shoegaze live alongside torchy trip-hop and pure ambient.
  — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
• Trailing behind them are indie folk artists Silvana Estrada and Mon Laferte, who each received six nominations.
  — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
• The indie brand is known for its no-synthetics, all-natural approach working with materials such as cotton and combed wool, artisanal craftsmanship and basics with a twist.
  — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
• At best, this boldly immersive effort will find a home at other festivals and in one-off screenings, whereas general indie distribution seems unlikely.
  — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2026
• This strange physical media project looks more like a ransom drop than an indie comedy screener, but that’s the magic of Thompson’s grassroots distribution strategy.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Sep. 2026
• Germany’s leading indie fest has long made a specialty of outsiders and oddballs — artists who arrived without pedigree, training programs or an obvious industry slot and built the career anyway.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
• Although art house films once skewed toward older audiences, indie films are now popular with younger generations, who have also become accustomed to reading subtitles.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
• Great indie bands like Wednesday and Hotline TNT began on shoegaze ground before taking off in their own different directions.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026
• The Vinyl Albums and Indie Store Album Sales charts rank the week’s top-sellers on vinyl, and at indie and small chain record stores, respectively.
  — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2026