How to Use indie in a Sentence

indie

noun
  • The indie stalwarts are set to hit the road across the U.S. starting in late May.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2022
  • In 2013, Hirsch became attached to the lead role in the indie biopic.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The indie family drama's road to the big screen was a long one.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 12 May 2023
  • Still, seeing a few more indies in the limelight is great.
    — Matt Gardner, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Mowry and Hardrict first met in 1999, on the set of the indie movie Hollywood Horror.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • It should be said that this look, like its cousins ( ’90s and indie sleaze), is the jurisdiction of the eyes.
    — Sloane Crosley, Vogue, 29 Apr. 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
  • American indie band Cage the Elephant will open for all the shows.
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Daniel Glass, who heads the indie label Glassnote, said.
    — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 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
  • Fast forward 30 years or so, and Gn is one of the few indies who have succeeded on his own terms.
    — Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The indie studio will release the film in theaters and on demand on Dec. 23.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 14 Nov. 2022
  • This is not groovy indie finery; there’s a rock-as-high-art vision at work here.
    — Evan Haga, SPIN, 24 May 2024
  • You guys parted ways with your label and went indie last year.
    — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • There are few bigger indie success stories in the past 20 years than Death Cab for Cutie.
    — Jeff Terich, SPIN, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The result was a blockbuster-budget game with an indie feel.
    — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • At the end of the summer of 2019, the indie musician Mitski was on top of the world, and she was exhausted.
    — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Clearly, this band’s indie bona fides are second to none.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The indie-rockers appeared fresh off the release of their new album We, the group's first in nearly five years.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 8 May 2022
  • Pine, for all his aging-glamour-boy indie-hair-band sheen, is an actor who would have done fine in the ’70s.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
  • And a little bit of All forms of rock ‘n roll, alternative, indie, and rock.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 21 June 2024
  • 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
  • But that's not all that the hip indie distributor that could has brought to audiences over the past 10 years — far from it.
    — Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • And the intimate late-night live music indie shows at the Dakota Tavern can't be missed.
    — Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
  • For those wanting a more punk, alt-rock and indie feeling Christmas.
    — Lincoln Wright, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Until that point Lenox, who is now 33, had remained all but oblivious to the hip-hop and indie pop his peers grew up on.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
  • A lot of that is indie film production, a good sign for the other health of the industry across all features.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Both indie and megastar acts are putting out their albums in analog form.
    — Tim Barribeau, WSJ, 17 May 2022
  • Willie and Me will have its world premiere in Oldenburg on Sept. 13, kicking off the 30th edition of the German indie fest.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Enterprising indie producers generally are nimble, and many will buy piecemeal rather than buying in bulk, while others will race to acquire goods in the window before Trump changes course again.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2025

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