be thrifty
Example Sentences
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The executive chef has to be thrifty to make it all work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Parents have reason to be thrifty this year.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
They also portrayed him as a libertarian who dislikes government regulation and who can be thrifty to a fault.
From The New Yorker ● May 7, 2019
By 1935, even the chairman of something called the National Thrift Committee admitted there was “no use talking thrift to persons who had nothing to be thrifty with.”
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2015
Of course it is praiseworthy to be thrifty in domestic affairs, and why should not the janitor be so too? only, you know, it is not proper in that place.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
