be thrifty
Example Sentences
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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
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
That, after all, was what a farmer must think of—a good, saving wife, without any foolishness about her, who would be thrifty and lend a hand at his work when he needed it.
From The Miller Of Old Church by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
