Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Stinting retirement savings is costly: You can’t get back lost company matches, tax breaks and all-important compounded returns if you don’t contribute.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2019

Stinting on the Moses backstory — of being set afloat by his mother for discovery by Pharaoh’s daughter — Scott first presents him as an outsider adopted by the Egyptian court.

From Time • Dec. 13, 2014

Stinting their artificial diet made them so ravenous that they would strike at anything you dropped overboard�a cigarette butt, a finger.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stinting is only another name for work and patience and economy combined, and it brings its inevitable fruit—Success!

From "Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues by Smith, Wade C.