scrimping
Example Sentences
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“We have been scrimping for a long time.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
‘I worked very hard’: I’m 71 and have $6 million after scrimping and saving.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
"It's literally scrimping and scraping to be able to manage to get one lesson a week," she says.
From BBC • May 24, 2025
With housing prices falling and stocks prices limping along, even middle-class families are scrimping rather than spending.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2024
She means," corrected Aunt Clara, who was nobody's fool, "she means it would be pleasanter living in my house than scrimping here to pay for dead horses.
From The House of Toys by Miller, Henry Russell
