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
Two cost of living fairs in a county aimed to lift "the taboo of wanting to save money and to be thrifty", said their organiser.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
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
I shall never be thrifty like you good builders, perhaps, but I'm sure you cannot love your little ones any more than I do mine.
From Among the Forest People by Clara Dillingham Pierson
