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
Some of them may be thrifty 25-year-olds living in their old bedrooms while trying to save money for a down payment.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2018
Hampered by a $36 million salary cap penalty levied by the league in March 2012 and split evenly over the next two seasons, the Redskins were forced to be thrifty.
From Washington Times • Jan. 7, 2015
Of course it is praiseworthy to be thrifty in domestic affairs, and why should not the janitor be so, too?
From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Hapgood, Isabel Florence