Thesaurus / scrimping

scrimping

How to use scrimping in a sentence

And he went on scrimping and saving and buying shares so as to have as large a stake in the silver future as possible.

I've no patience with all their scrimping, and sometimes I give thanks that poor Elizabeth is out of it all.

A new wig meant even greater scrimping than usual for Billy and his mistress.

In order to supplement the domestic scrimping, he again had to solicit the aid of Dona Luisa.

This meant borrowing and scrimping for several years,—a fact which had great bearing on the wife's illness later.

If, when the job is over, any scrimping has to take place it will not be the construction man who has to drop back.

And within the twelvemonth, for all his scrimping and saving, he was on the point of starvation.

Much scrimping and hoarding may engender a baser love of money for money's self.

I didn't mind working for Theodore, and scrimping, and never having any of the things I wanted, from blouses to music.

When a man is losing his wages and his family is scrimping he ought not to be facing a thirty-dollar-a-week hospital charge.

THE HIGHGRADERWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985