be thrifty
Example Sentences
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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
In other efforts to be thrifty, he pours used pasta water onto his garden, shares a bath with his wife and has replaced his lawn with crushed granite.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015
Above all, be thrifty and save your money, and do not complain and whine at your apparent disadvantages.
From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
